[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it worth effort to install 4.73...I have 4.72 now... is it better, more
> stable, worse??? Thanks for the help...
Well if you look at the release notes (if you can get passed
the blinding, annoying 'Netscape Netcenter'):
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/relnotes/windows-4.73.html#whatnew
There's a list of a bunch of things that's supposed to be
new, but in fact you have to compare it to the older listing
to subtract off the stuff that's not-quite-so-new:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/relnotes/windows-4.72.html#whatnew
This looks like it might be important:
Security fixes that address Javascript cookie
exploitation and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) vulnerability. To
get more information about these and other
security issues in Netscape Communicator, check our
security information page at
http://home.netscape.com/security/notes/index.html.
And what they say over there is:
JavaScript Cookie Exploit - An exploit was reported for
Netscape Communicator 4.72 and earlier in which a hostile
site can read the links in a user's bookmark file and
some attributes of HTML files if the user's profile name
and the Communicator installation directory path are
known to the hostile site. This exploit has been fixed in
Netscape Communicator 4.73, which is now available for
download. Users of previous Communicator versions can use
any of four techniques to prevent the exploit.
The Acros-Suencksen SSL Vulnerability - This
vulnerability, which could allow a malicious web master
to intercept secure data via an SSL connection, has been
identified and fixed in both the Personal Security
Manager (PSM) for Netscape Communicator and Netscape
Communicator version 4.73.
So that's the bottom line. It's a security upgrade (and
maybe we really should se a redhat security alert about
these things, no?).
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