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Firefox Security Patch released! 9/9/05

Unread postby Chachazz » September 9th, 2005, 9:32 pm

On September 6 a security vulnerability affecting all versions of Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was reported to Mozilla by Tom Ferris and on September 8th was publicly disclosed.

On September 9, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which resolves this problem by explicitly disabling IDN in the browser. The fix is either a manual configuration change or a small download which will make this configuration change for the user. Instructions on administering these changes can be found below.

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Unread postby Chachazz » September 9th, 2005, 9:55 pm

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Unread postby Chachazz » September 10th, 2005, 1:04 pm

After installing the patch, look to the lower taskbar for the IDN Icon.
Rightclick and uncheck IDN.

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Unread postby Chachazz » September 10th, 2005, 1:34 pm

Correction to above post(some info omitted)

Alternately, Install IDN Info 0.6.3 Extension

Homepage:http://4t2.cc/mozilla/idn/en
ExtensionsMirror: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion....php/t2668.html

Look to the lower taskbar for the IDN Icon.
Rightclick and uncheck IDN.

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