Firefox Vulnerable to Protocol-Handling Bug Attacks
Firefox remains vulnerable to attacks exploiting protocol-handling bugs, even with two recent patches, security researchers say.
Firefox remains vulnerable to attacks exploiting protocol-handling bugs, even though it was patched twice in July, a pair of security researchers said this weekend.
Billy Rios and Nate McFeters, who spelled out design and functionality vulnerabilities in Windows’ Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol handling as recently as mid-August, said Saturday that they have uncovered another way hackers could send malicious code to users via browsers.
Full story: pcworld.com
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