Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Like the JavaScript-related flaw disclosed earlier this week, the new stack buffer overflow vulnerability was disclosed by Simon Berry-Brown, this time in association with Andrew Haynes.
Firefox 3.5.1 was released ahead of schedule on July 16 to address the issue with the TraceMonkey just-in-time JavaScript engine. (It wasn't available when I checked this morning [Australian time], but it is now - download it from Mozilla's web site , or use your preferred updating method.)
The new problem is described as a "Unicode data remote stack buffer overflow vulnerability", and a proof of concept has been released.
A buffer overflows if an excessively long string of data is sent to the document.write method, leading to the possibility of arbitrary code execution or a crash.
It's not clear whether Firefox 3.5.1 also contains this vulnerability. The security software on my computers identifies the proof of concept as malware, and I'm not prepared to disable it just to find out.
David Bass
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