This just in: Netscape Vulnerability

[twg3 at mediaone.net (Tom Guilderson)]

I was able to verify this vulnerability.  If you exit Netscape
completely it gets killed. Fortunately I am behind a firewall
preventing anyone outside getting in.

David Lapointe wrote:
> 
> This came from the Mandrake security list.  I can't demonstrate the vulnerability though,
> likely related to my firewall.
> 
> Problem Description:
> 
> There exists a problem in all versions of Netscape with Java enabled.
> Under certain conditions, Netscape can be turned into a server that
> serves files on your local hard drive that Netscape has read access to
> and remote people can access it by connecting their web client to port
> 8080 on your machine if they know the IP address.  For a demonstration
> of this vulnerability visit http://www.brumleve.com/BrownOrifice/.
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> Linux-Mandrake recommends you disable Java to make Netscape invulnerable
> to this exploit.  You can disable Java by hand in Edit -> Preferences ->
> Advanced.  You can also remove the preferences.js file by using:
> 
> rm -f ~/.netscape/preferences.js
> _
> 
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>  David Lapointe
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