Severe Security Flaw in Netscape   4/27/2005 - 825 views, 3 Comments

Summary: Security firm Secunia has issued a "highly critical" advisory for a security flaw in Netscape. The highly critical flaw was discovered earlier this week, and is known to affect at least Netscape versions 6.2.3 and 7.2. It may also affect other ...

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Security firm Secunia has issued a “highly critical” advisory for a security flaw in Netscape. The highly critical flaw was discovered earlier this week, and is known to affect at least Netscape versions 6.2.3 and 7.2. It may also affect other 6.x and 7.x versions of Netscape.

According to Secunia, the flaw allows a hacker to crash a users computer, or even to remotely execute code on the compromised system.

While a Netscape spokesperson advised Netscape users with the compromised versions of Netscape to upgrade to Netscape version 8.0, Secunia advised users to “use another product”.

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3 Comments »

  1. I came to the conclusion several years ago that Netscape was only a shell of its former self. AOL seems to put a lot of effort into creating a new release based on whatever Mozilla code is current at the time, then forget about it.

    The true Netscape experience has moved to Mozilla and now Firefox. If nothing else, they make an effort to fix security holes…something AOL rarely bothers to do even when the fix has been available for the Mozilla release they used when creating a version of Netscape.

    Comment by Kelson — 4/28/2005 @ 9:00 am

  2. They still do Netscape? I thought it was just Firefox and the Mozilla suite.

    Comment by Bill Godfrey — 4/29/2005 @ 7:15 am

  3. I’m pretty sure that Mozilla/Firefox has no connection with Netscape anymore, hasn’t for a few years… but yea, Netscape has a newer version? Though I see it’s still in beta.

    Comment by John M — 4/29/2005 @ 5:53 pm

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