[LINK] OSS means slower patches

[Howard Lowndes]

A twist on this thread.

Over at El Reg there is a report of a vuln in Firefox running on FC4 or 
RHEL4 that will allow shell script access. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/21/linux_firefox_security_bug/

It seems that the vuln was discovered by an Aussie, Peter Zelezny and 
was reported on 6 Sep.  The fix looks to have been announced yesterday 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307185 after having been 
checked through other Mozilla products.

The 15 days to fix here rather makes a lie of Symantec's 54 day average.

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