Thursday, 19 July 2007

Mozilla Fixes Firefox, Now It's Microsoft's Turn

Almost a week after a zero-day vulnerability involving Firefox and Internet Explorer surfaced, the Mozilla Foundation has released a patch for the vulnerability.

However, despite the bug looming large, Microsoft said, the security hole is a feature, not a bug.

Firefox, after issuing the patch, said from its side, the issue is closed or solved. For almost a week, people involved in the business pointed fingers at either Microsoft or Mozilla. Now that the issue is solved from Mozilla’s side, it should be seen how Microsoft responds to that.

It is learned that unless Microsoft does not fix the problem, attackers could exploit user’s systems using Adobe Acrobat, AOL Instant Messenger, Skype, as also Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, NetMeeting and Windows Media Player.