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28 Apr 2005
Users of Netscape 7.2 and 6.2.3 have been advised to abandon the software owing to a flaw in the way the browser handles images.
A new critical advisory from Danish security watchdog Secunia warns that a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way the browser handles GIF images could cause systems to crash or allow malicious code onto a machine without the user's knowledge.
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The only advice the firm offers to deal with the problem is to "use another product".
The flaw is similar to one that plagued the Mozilla browser, for which a patch was released last month.
Netscape was informed of the flaw by an outside security expert. A patch has not yet been released. The company was unavailable for comment at time of going to press.
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