greets. tho this is off-topic for this list, it is still a bug that centos users along with all users of firefox should be aware of. due to nature of bug and what is involved, i believe it safer to not go into great details in an open list. never know which 'hats' are subscribed to support list. :-D so my question is just who should i inform of problem? mozilla.org? author of add-on? cve.mitre.org? all 3? tia. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:38 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:> > greets. > > tho this is off-topic for this list, it is still a bug that centos users > along with all users of firefox should be aware of. >What version of CentOS and Firefox?> > due to nature of bug and what is involved, i believe it safer to not go > into great details in an open list. never know which 'hats' are subscribed > to support list. :-D > > 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.> > tia. > > > -- > peace out. > > If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... > ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! > -+- > in a world with out fences, who needs gates. > > CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 > > tc,hago. > > g > . > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //
On 03/09/16 12:46, Mike - st257 wrote:>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:38 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:<<>>> What version of CentOS and Firefox? >-- centos 6.7, firefox 38.6.1. <<>>>> 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. >-- 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. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .