[新聞] Are You Safer With Firefox?

[kevinlau (新電腦暴走中)]

Is Firefox a more secure web browser than Microsoft's Internet Explorer?
The answer may be yes,
but the issues are more complicated than most people realize.
In fact, Firefox has its share of security problems,
and has probably been saved from real-world attack so far only by its
single-digit market share,

And there are security problems in version 1.0.1 already,
even if there are no advisories for them yet.
For instance, on a multiuser machine, such as a
Linux system, if one user running as root starts Firefox,
and another non-root user starts Firefox,
that non-root user's instance of Firefox gains root privileges
(bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_ bug.cgi?id=247412).

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大意應該是 如果root在linux系統下(BSD不清楚)開啟FF
而另外common user也開啟FF那那個人的FF會獲得root權限

原文
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/118588/65/

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推 ificould:very cool!
推 sonyu:沒多少人想用root玩x-window吧，很危險的事...^^"
推 kevinlau:如果要用root權限裝東西又要上網查資料就會用到
→ sivid:請愛用su或sudo, 隨意使用root權限本來就有風險
推 genwin:因為很少人用root玩X才會有這樣的Bug。^^|||
→ fyodor:所以說別用root