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A more effective mitigation
The US-CERT vulnerability note has a better mitigation:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/443060

Essentially, go to about:config and set javascript.options.jit.content to "false"
Posted by: forrestgump2000@...   Posted on: 07/14/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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A more effective mitigation  forrestgump2000@... | 07/14/09
Not going to work  Lerianis10 | 07/14/09
A much better solution: NoScript  wackoae | 07/14/09
Agreed, but...  pwn0tr0n | 07/15/09
I agree entirely  markflax | 07/16/09
Not entirely...  JCitizen | 07/19/09
... but stupidity is its own reward  oldbaritone | 07/16/09
RE: Attack code posted for unpatched Firefox 3.5 flaw  shellcodes_coder | 07/15/09
That must be true, at least for x64...  JCitizen | 07/15/09
Not so sure.  markflax | 07/16/09
True, but..  JCitizen | 07/19/09
'Many eyes' were obviously looking the other way!  Patanjali | 07/15/09
Yep...  storm14k | 07/15/09
ok...  Chorizotarian | 07/15/09
I think that storm14k was being sarcastic.  nbahn | 07/15/09
Make a browser with 0 security holes  goff256 | 07/15/09
Hell freezing over..  phatkat | 07/15/09
I wish other people would admit that...  goff256 | 07/16/09
And in other news  magcomment | 07/15/09
Or maybe Chrome..  JCitizen | 07/15/09
This Wasn't Always the Case  nbahn | 07/15/09
Less programs, less users  goff256 | 07/16/09
RE: Attack code posted for unpatched Firefox 3.5 flaw  eiverson@... | 07/15/09
that's what she said  RealGem | 07/15/09
Still...  melekali | 07/15/09
So therefore IE?  Tom6 | 07/16/09
Why change the subject?  blacksheepxlch | 07/16/09
Try it, you might find the same.  Tom6 | 07/16/09
Wait ... what?  quux | 07/17/09
reported rather than reported  Tom6 | 07/17/09
Was Linux vulnerable to this threat?  Tom6 | 07/17/09
RE: Attack code posted for unpatched Firefox 3.5 flaw  henrybill | 07/21/09
RE: Attack code posted for unpatched Firefox 3.5 flaw  j0nnysmith | 07/29/09

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