Firefox 3.5 blackboard patch

Wednesday's updates kicked off a new Mozilla plan to check for outdated plug-ins that are popular with both users and attackers. After Firefox is updated to 3. Mozilla wants to expand the plug-in check in Firefox 3. Firefox 3. Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. Work for a mission-driven organization that makes people-first products. More About Mozilla.

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While Mozilla rushed out a fix, rival Microsoft has yet to patch a bug that was publicly disclosed the same day -- Monday, July 13 -- that the attack code exploiting Firefox 3. Hackers have been using a vulnerability in an ActiveX control used to publish Excel spreadsheets online and to display those in Internet Explorer, Microsoft's browser.

Microsoft has provided a tool that users can download, install and run that disables the ActiveX control -- and has provided instructions and tools for enterprises to do the same on a massive scale -- but it did not deliver a patch for the underlying problem Tuesday, its regularly-scheduled monthly patch day. The SQL-based attacks try to inject script code into the site; the code points to a known hacker domain, which in turn links to other sites that serve up malicious JavaScript that launches an exploit for the ActiveX bug.

The "kill bits" reference is to the downloadable tool that Microsoft had created, which disables the ActiveX control by modifying the Windows registry. This story, "Mozilla beats Microsoft to patch punch, quashes first critical bug in Firefox 3.