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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 11:15:18 -0400
From:      Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
To:        hawkeyd@visi.com
Cc:        trevor@jpj.net, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mozilla and NS6 security problem
Message-ID:  <6988EC2C-5DDF-11D6-B5E1-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200205021422.g42EMcY17201@sheol.localdomain>

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Le Jeudi 2 mai 2002, =E0 10:22 , D J Hawkey Jr a =E9crit :

> In article <20020501152156.X2876-100000_blues.jpj.net@ns.sol.net>,
> 	trevor@jpj.net writes:
>> Martin Blapp wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ju-30.04.02-000/
>>> http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-ns/
>>>
>>> Our ports are vulnerable too. It seems that there is
>>> no fix yet available.
>>
>> Thank you, Martin.  I tested the linux-mozilla port yesterday and=20
>> found it
>> had the bug.  I've just marked it forbidden (sorry about the delay). =20=

>> The
>> Netscape 6 ports were already marked forbidden because of my =
suspicion
>> that they had the zlib double free() bug (I've seen a rumor that it =
was
>> corrected in Netscape 6.22).
>
> What of the "native" FreeBSD Mozilla port/package, whether it be 0.9.9
> or 1.0-RC?

Well http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-ns/ sure says it's vulnerable:

"Tested on:

Mozilla 0.9.6, Linux (Debian).
Mozilla 0.9.7, NT4.
Mozilla 0.9.8, Linux (Red Hat 7.1).
Mozilla 0.9.9, Win2000.
Mozilla 0.9.9, NT4.
Mozilla 0.9.9, Linux (Red Hat 7.2).
Mozilla 1.0 RC1, FreeBSD.
Netscape 6.1, NT4.
Netscape 6.2.1, Win2000.
Netscape 6.2.2, Win2000.
Netscape 6.2.2, NT4.
Netscape 6.2.2, Linux (Debian)."

A.


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