{"id":21,"date":"2005-05-24T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-07-05T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T17:31:50","slug":"netscape-8-is-now-secureat-least-when-using-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/05\/netscape-8-is-now-secureat-least-when-using-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Netscape 8 is now secure&#8230;at least when using gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when the Beta version of <a href=\"http:\/\/browser.netscape.com\/ns8\/\">Netscape 8<\/a> was released to the public, I stated in a <a href=\"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/03\/mozilla-firefox-vs-netscape-8\/\">previous blog entry<\/a>, that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plugin used to access Internet Explorer&#8217;s rendering engine opens Netscape 8 to the same security vulnerabilities Internet Explorer has, <strong>regardless of what rendering engine is being used<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To further explain this, there is a file in the plugins folder called <strong>npTrident.dll<\/strong>. The name of Internet Explorer&#8217;s rendering engine is Trident. If you enter about:plugins in Netscape 8 you&#8217;ll see that the trident plugin is enabled for the MIME types text\/HTML, text\/plain, text\/xml and application\/xml. Any website that detects you are using Netscape 8, could use an &lt;embed&gt; to feed you an Internet Explorer exploit, even if you&#8217;re surfing in the Firefox mode.<\/p>\n<p>Well apparently this vulnerability has been fixed in the final release of Netscape 8.0. (currently at 8.0.1)<br \/>\nFor more info see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonie.co.uk\/nsbvuln.html\">http:\/\/www.stonie.co.uk\/nsbvuln.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when the Beta version of Netscape 8 was released to the public, I stated in a previous blog entry, that: The plugin used to access Internet Explorer&#8217;s rendering engine opens Netscape 8 to the same security vulnerabilities Internet Explorer&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/05\/netscape-8-is-now-secureat-least-when-using-gecko\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}