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Have just picked up this advisory notice.

A flaw in the way the Firefox and Opera browsers handle an image file could allow an attacker to see what sites a person has visited.

The problem concerns how the two browsers handle a ".BMP," or bitmap, image file, according to an advisory written by Gynvael Coldwind of Vexillium.org, who posted a video illustrating the problem.

A malicious bitmap file can be created that pulls other information from the browsers' memory. Some of the information that can be captured is random, but at other times could be valuable, the advisory said.

"The harvested data contains various information including parts of other websites, users' favourites and history and other information," Vexillium.org said.

Using the "canvas" HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) tag supported by the browsers, an attacker can capture the data. Then, using JavaScript, the information can be sent to a remote server.

The flaw could also crash Firefox. The vulnerability affects Firefox 2.0.0.11 and previous versions of that browser

David

The latest version is 2.0.0.12 so everyone should really be using this version by now as it has been out since February 8th.

Checked mine and have version 2.0.0.12
Thanks
Di