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XChat Author Warns for Firefox Exploit

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

A second more serious security issue has been discovered which is also being fixed by the recently released Firefox 1.0.7.

The exploit, which is classified as ‘extremely critical’, exploits a security hole in the startup script of Firefox. By passing parameters in URL’s from external applications it is possible to perform commands when Firefox is configured to be the default browser.

The exploit can only be used on certain Linux and *nix systems.

“We have a work-around in xchat 2.4.5, but to really fix it you need to upgrade firefox and mozilla” XChat author Zed said to IRC-Junkie in a reaction.

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Tags: Hack, IRC, XChat
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Update on the Development of Eggdrop

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

Development has been going slowly lately around the popular Eggdrop bot. We got into contact with lead developer Wcc and asked what causes the delay.

“There are different reasons for the slowdown for each of the branches” Wcc starts. “As for 1.6, there haven’t been any real.. problems. 1.6.17 has been a rock-solid release. As for 1.7, this is mainly due to the fact that I, personally, haven’t had any free time to do any of the major things that need to be done on it. 1.9 is once again fairly active. Alot of progress is being made.”

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Tags: Eggdrop, IRC, Software
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