Ars Technical calls the Firefox zero day last weekend a hoax
Posted by Michael Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:11:05 GMT
In Ars Technica’s article today called Firefox JavaScript security ‘a complete mess’? More like a hoax they site Mischa Spiegelmock as saying
“I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources, and I certainly haven’t used it to take over anyone else’s computer and execute arbitrary code,”
and that there wasn’t any new exploit that was discovered. The editor notes that the story link is where they will update the details as they come in.
This is considerably less worrisome than a remote control exploit as this was originally reported as.
Stay tuned, er, browsed, whatever.
