Secunia Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Netscape, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, gain knowledge of sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, or potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Netscape Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24289
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24289/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive
information, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Netscape 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/5134/
DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Netscape, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions,
gain knowledge of sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting
attacks, or potentially compromise a user's system.
See vulnerabilities #1, #2, #6, and #7 for more information:
SA24205
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 8.1.2. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Do not browse untrusted sites and disable Javascript.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-03.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-06.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-07.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24175:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24175/
SA24205:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24205/
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