Firefox Security Flaw Reported: Cross Platform

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Serious Firefox security flaw for non-admin users

 

The item starts: I have found a fundamental security problem with Firefox updates on OS X.

 

However the issue which has been reported does not seem to be that serious. It is reported that non-privileged users cannot check for updates to Firefox [Firefox updates go unreported to these users] Is this really that much of an issue? [would it be an issue for you?]

 

I was particularly surprised by this line partway through the article:

 

"Do the Firefox folks know their ar*e from their elbow when it comes to security?"[/Quote]

 

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Something and nothing?

[SteveBentley]

Given that it is an open source product, I'm sure the "Firefox folks" will welcome his contributed patches if he cares sufficiently to fix it.

[kmount]

Gentoo is the same, grayed out but because it's installed from a package repository once a new version is available it will be installed.

 

 

EDIT: As he found out below.

 

Update: A Solaris sysadmin has just informed me that Firefox updates are catered for by the Solaris software update system.