Microsoft Makes Firefox Vulnerable
By ryan | October 19, 2009
If you haven’t already heard about this, earlier this year Microsoft released a .NET plugin for Firefox that opened Firefox up to some serious vulnerabilities.
The Mozilla foundation found out about this and released an update, which blocks this plugin and give a notification somewhere along the lines of:
Firefox has determined that the following add-ons are known to cause stability or security problems
According to ComputerWorld’s Sneaky Microsoft plug-in puts Firefox users at risk:
While the vulnerability is in an IE component, there is an attack vector for Firefox users as well,” admitted Microsoft engineers in a post to the company’s Security Research & Defense blog on Tuesday. “The reason is that .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installs a ‘Windows Presentation Foundation’ plug-in in Firefox.
Hopefully this won’t happen again, but you never know with Microsoft…
To get details of the whole story, check it out here.
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