Tricky Netscape Security Hole

[Jeff Weinstein]

Thaddeus Ozone, by way of carolann at censored.org Censored Girls Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Yes it's full of headers, but it's the complete, unexpurgated version.
> If this theory is correct, this IS FAR WORSE THAN A 40 bit key.
> 
> I saw the livescript on the source code.
> I use 1.22 for image stability right now, though.
> 
> Yes it's a came from, a came from, a came from kinda deal,
> but in the interest of security brevity it "seems real enough" to me.

  Didn't you see this discussed here last week?  This is a bug in Beta 2.
It has since been fixed, and the now available Beta 3 of Netscape 2.0
has the fix.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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