Mozilla, Firefox, thunderbird Users (Windows)

[planetsim]

If you didnt know there is a vunerability found in Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird Programs on the Windows OS

Bugzilla 250180 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250180)

Originally Posted by Mozilla WebSite
"Shell: protocol allows access to local files and can lead to a DOS"

I suggest all users that are on Windows to update if they havent already

[Weedpacket]

I haven't tested this thoroughly, but setting up a custom preference
network.protocol-handler.external.shell
and giving it a boolean value of false appears to turn off recognition of the shell: scheme completely.

[Merve]

I've updated :)

Thank god these guys are fast at patching.