Security issue with Thunderbird

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Yes, I will report it to Apple,

When Thunderbird pops up that irritating "update is available,"
I always ignore it.  It's irritating because I want to update while in 
the admin account.  I set it to notify me, but I wish it wouldn't be so 
often.

Anyway, I have preferences in the admin account to also check, but it 
never does.  And I have always installed it manually, because the one 
time I did get the pop-up, the update failed with the same error that
I get manually if I don't FIRST delete the previous version.

Well, this time, I decided to try again the check/update button in the 
"about" pop-up.  It worked.

The security issue is that it did NOT ask for admin authentication to 
install it for all users.

-- 
Wes Groleau

   Nutrition for Blokes: Re-engineering your diet for life
   http://www.phlaunt.com/quentin

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Reply news31 (6411) 3/30/2012 3:48:59 PM

On 03-30-2012 11:48, Wes Groleau wrote:
> Yes, I will report it to Apple,

Sigh.  I did.  But a bug I reported in 2005 is still open and no one has 
even commented on it.  Might as well be reporting spam to Google.


-- 
Wes Groleau

   Nutrition for Blokes: Re-engineering your diet for life
   http://www.phlaunt.com/quentin

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Reply news31 (6411) 3/31/2012 1:37:14 AM


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