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Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole
Tom Weinstein wrote:
> John Young wrote:
> >
> > Still, it would be good to know if a Netscape snooper could snarf a
> > key while it is being used by PGP to decrypt, that is, whether the
> > hole allows snooping on dynamic ops or just on stored info.
> >
> > Does anyone know if the the hole finders are discussing this on the
> > Net, and if so, where? What are the folks at Netscape saying? Tom,
> > Jeff?
>
> We aren't talking about it much. We've released some information to
> the press and posted a release on our web site.
>
> This attack can be used to grab any file from the user's hard drive,
> provided you know the file name and path. It exploits a bug in the
> way forms are handled. You can guard against this attack by turning
> on the warning dialog for submitting a form over an insecure connection.
>
> We have a fix which we are testing now, and we'll have it out early next
> week for 4.0. A fix for 3.x will follow once we have 4.0 fixed.
Tom, are you going to release the linux version of netscape,
and when.
Thank you very much.
- Igor.