Several readers were curious about the details of bug 259708, the security hole 0.10.1 was released to fix. The bug is now public. In addition, the reporter, Alex Vincent, blogged the story of the bug.
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In Linux, as root I install the xpi and get as root firefox 0.10.1. As another user I simply get 0.10 in the about mozilla firefox and I cannot install the patch
October 5th, 2004 at 7:03 am
In Linux, as root I install the xpi and get as root firefox 0.10.1. As another user I simply get 0.10 in the about mozilla firefox and I cannot install the patch
October 5th, 2004 at 4:56 pm
Jose: I have witnessed the same on my Linux installation.
October 5th, 2004 at 6:51 pm
The patch XPI provided by Mozilla.org has wrong file permissions, you can simply chmod the two patched files. You will find instructions in this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.…rg/show_bug.cgi?id=262604
October 5th, 2004 at 6:53 pm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262604