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images/news/security.jpgA London security analyst working with the open source group GNUCitizen has discovered a potentially serious exploit that could affect users of the Firefox browser and Apple's QuickTime movie and music player - especially iTunes customers - on Windows XP-based machines. BetaNews tested and verified the severity of the exploit.
As early as one year ago, as Petko D. Petkov wrote yesterday, he discovered that javascript code appearing in the EMBED tag of an HTML file could launch a new Web browser instance, feeding it any kind of default code that isn't checked before being executed.
Exploit Discovered Impacting QuickTime, Firefox on Windows XP
As early as one year ago, as Petko D. Petkov wrote yesterday, he discovered that javascript code appearing in the EMBED tag of an HTML file could launch a new Web browser instance, feeding it any kind of default code that isn't checked before being executed.
Exploit Discovered Impacting QuickTime, Firefox on Windows XP
