Mozilla patches faulty patch

Thursday, 8 March 2007, 12:06 AM EST

The Mozilla Foundation has patched a faulty patch that was itself subject to a security vulnerability.

A security update for Firefox and the SeaMonkey application suite issued in mid-December left users open to a JavaScript-related privilege escalation flaw that meant hackers could commandeer vulnerable machines, Mozilla warned on Monday.

At The Register.

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