Firefox also vulnerable says researcher
Contrary to popular belief, Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0 is also vulnerable to attackers armed with the Windows animated (ANI) cursor exploit, a researcher said.
Alexander Sotirov, the vulnerability researcher at Determina who discovered the ANI flaw last December and notified Microsoft of it later that month, yesterday posted a demonstration of an ANI exploit that hijacks a PC when Firefox users are conned into visiting a malicious site. Microsoft today issued a patch for the exploit.
“It turns out that Firefox uses the same vulnerable Windows component to process .ani files, which can be exploited in a way similar to Internet Explorer,” Sotirov said during the demo
via pcworld
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