A loophole in Firefox allow access to the user's files and theft
Mozilla developer of the Firefox browser company announced the discovery of a new vulnerability in the browser that allows hackers access to a user's computer and steal files from it.
The company said in a post on the official blog, if a user discovered malicious ads within the Russian news site worked to exploit a loophole browser and gained access to his computer and drag files and submit them on a server in Ukraine.
The company added that the reason for the gap is the implementation of BB malicious exploits enabled PDF documents browser with built-browser.
Mozilla noted that computers and the Windows and Linux vulnerable to exploitation gap, where looking for Related Files upload files by FTP protocol, specifically data entry reservation site-specific data, or any file containing the words pass or access base programs. The company said that Mac and Firefox on the Android system users will not face any security problems.
The company explained that the exploitation of the gap process does not leave any impact on the company's servers, recommending users of Windows and Linux systems change over access to sites words - if any, in the case of the use of additives ad blocking the penetration devices ratio may be very small because the exploitation is often through malicious ads.
The company has launched a new update to close the gap fully bears the number 39.0.3, which can be manually downloaded from the company's website or through the Update Center is located within the browser.
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