David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
Firefox Memory Corruption Vulnerability
by Sean, F-Secure
July 14, 2009
No one particular browser is completely secure and today brings additional evidence of this fact with the posting of a Firefox exploit that allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The current version of Firefox (3.5) is affected and older versions may be as well.
The vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 is caused due to an error when processing JavaScript code handling. See our vulnerability description for additional information. The exploit, discovered by SBerry, was posted to a popular exploit site yesterday.
Joshua, one of our Browsing Protection researchers tested this Firefox exploit against our Exploit Shield technology.
And the result was good. Our Exploit Shield heuristically detected it as shellcode and blocked the exploit.
Exploit Shield will be part of this year's product release. A standalone Exploit Shield beta is available from our Technology Preview pages.
Note: Firefox is a great browser? but you still want to practice safe surfing habits.
by Sean, F-Secure
July 14, 2009
No one particular browser is completely secure and today brings additional evidence of this fact with the posting of a Firefox exploit that allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The current version of Firefox (3.5) is affected and older versions may be as well.
The vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 is caused due to an error when processing JavaScript code handling. See our vulnerability description for additional information. The exploit, discovered by SBerry, was posted to a popular exploit site yesterday.
Joshua, one of our Browsing Protection researchers tested this Firefox exploit against our Exploit Shield technology.
And the result was good. Our Exploit Shield heuristically detected it as shellcode and blocked the exploit.
Exploit Shield will be part of this year's product release. A standalone Exploit Shield beta is available from our Technology Preview pages.
Note: Firefox is a great browser? but you still want to practice safe surfing habits.
