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The exploit is targeted at the version of Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle on Windows, which means most Tor users are vulnerable. While you can use a different browser the Tor developers have generally recommended that people don't; it's hard to lock down browsers against information leaks, and the fact that someone's using an unusual browser helps an attacker track them.


Actually it turns out to exploit an vulnerability that was already fixed in both Firefox and Firefox ESR:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/08/04/investigating-s...

The fix was included in a Tor Browser Bundle update on June 26, 2013:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-and...




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