Has Pale Moon ever discovered and patched vulnerabilities unknown to Mozilla? Topic is solved
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Has Pale Moon ever discovered and patched vulnerabilities unknown to Mozilla?
Reading Pale Moon’s release notes each month for me is fun. Most security patches in the UXP summary, as I have seen, match defects in Mozilla’s code. As we grow further apart from Mozilla, I can see the share of inapplicable code changes grows. I know that Mozilla has abandoned XUL in 2017, that I should not think they are still maintaining that part of our shared heritage in their own security reports. Because of this, I am curious: has the Pale Moon team ever spotted and mended vulnerabilities in code that Mozilla has long ago forsaken?
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Re: Has Pale Moon ever discovered and patched vulnerabilities unknown to Mozilla?
Yes.TheRealMaestro wrote: ↑2022-04-29, 20:27Because of this, I am curious: has the Pale Moon team ever spotted and mended vulnerabilities in code that Mozilla has long ago forsaken?
I generally don't go through the effort of generating CVEs for them or what not, but there have been e.g. use-after-free and exploitable crash vulnerabilities that were Pale Moon specific that have been patched.
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