On 09/03/16 19:11, g wrote:
On 03/09/16 12:46, Mike - st257 wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:38 PM, g geleem@bellsouth.net wrote:
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What version of CentOS and Firefox?
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centos 6.7, firefox 38.6.1.
Does it affect the latest version of Firefox just released:
firefox-38.7.0-1.el6_7
Is the bug in Firefox or the add-on.
If the bug is in Firefox, then I would report it to Red Hat. CentOS will not fix bugs, security or otherwise, as the policy is to rebuild RHEL, bugs and all.
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so my question is just who should i inform of problem?
mozilla.org? author of add-on? cve.mitre.org? all 3?
Author of the add-on would be my first stop.
If it turns out to be a larger bug affecting more than just that add-on, hopefully the add-on author will run it up the chain to Mozilla.
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reason in bring this up is if a hacker hacks someone's system and has knowledge of bug, he most likely will have disassembled add-on and knows what he needs to know to cause serious problems.
at first, i thought author. after posting and more thought time, authors tend to be too lax in testing and slow in fixing.
as for mozilla.org, their attitude has become 'not fixable, upgrade to later version', which in many cases is not doable.
with cve.mitre.org, they just might issue a 'CESA' to remove add-on and reinstall firefox, do not use add-on until bug is fixed.