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Old 9th December 2010
J65nko J65nko is offline
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Default WebSockets disabled in Firefox 4

From http://www.h-online.com/security/new...4-1150369.html

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Due to a vulnerability in the design of the WebSocket protocol, the Mozilla Foundation has decided to disable support for this protocol in the forthcoming Firefox 4 Beta 8 release. The vulnerability in the code for transparent proxies can potentially be exploited to poison the proxy cache and inject manipulated pages.

This could allow attackers to inject a specially crafted JavaScript for Google Analytics into the proxy's cache that will be returned to clients and executed in their browsers after every subsequent request.
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