[dba-Tech] Emergency Bulletin: Firefox 0 day vulnerability

[Stuart McLachlan]

Update at 2:32pm PST / 5:32pm EST: Firefox released a fix for this a few minutes ago. 
Update to Firefox 50.0.2 now to patch this vulnerability. Tor have also released a fix with 
version 6.0.7 of their browser.There is also a Thunderbird fix out, version 45.5.1. 

On 30 Nov 2016 at 7:18, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:

> ]We're sending out this unscheduled emergency bulletin
> [https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/11/emergency-bulletin-firefox-0-d
> ay-wild/?utm_source=list&utm_campaign=113016&utm_medium=email] to
> alert you that there is a 0 day vulnerability in the wild that affects
> Firefox web browsers and the Tor browser bundle. The vulnerability
> emerged a few hours ago.
> 
> We recommend you temporarily switch to a non-firefox based browser
> until the Firefox dev team has a chance to release a fix. That should
> happen quite quickly.
> 
> We would like to encourage you to share this alert with the larger web
> community. It's unusual for us to send out a non-WordPress related
> vulnerability, but the impact of this may be wide-spread. We also
> suspect that WordPress websites may be used as a watering hole to
> infect vulnerable web browsers using this new exploit.
> 
> Full details on our blog...
> [https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/11/emergency-bulletin-firefox-0-d
> ay-wild/?utm_source=list&utm_campaign=113016&utm_medium=email
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Mark Maunder
> Wordfence Founder & CEO
> 
> -- 
> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
> Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a
> well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,
> shouting "What a great ride!"
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