Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Netscape, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Netscape Two Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14996
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14996/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Netscape 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/85/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Netscape, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system.
For more information, see vulnerabilities #4 and #5 in:
SA14992
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 7.2. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Disable JavaScript support and do not install untrusted search
plugins.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported by:
Michael Krax and Georgi Guninski
Reported in Netscape by:
Juha-Matti Laurio
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA14992:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14992/
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