Opera and Firefox Vulnerabilities
Saturday, October 20th, 2007Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in both Opera and Firefox, but don’t worry, an upgrade will take care of them.
According to Secunia, an update to Opera 9.24 will be needed to solve the three known issues affecting all prior versions. First of all, Opera may launch external email or newsgroup clients incorrectly, thus allowing the execution of arbitrary commands when visiting malicious sites. Still, this flaw won’t affect users unless they had already configured an external email or newsgroup client. (more…)
