One-day-old Netscape 8.0 patched

Neutron

20th May 2005 - 07:05 PM

A day after launching Netscape 8 and touting the browser's security features, Netscape has released an update to fix several serious security flaws.

The original Netscape 8, released early on Thursday, is based on version 1.0.3 of the open-source Firefox browser. Netscape thought the new browser was immune to security vulnerabilities in the Firefox software that were fixed last week in Firefox 1.0.4. It turns out Netscape 8 is vulnerable.

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