Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2 bug reports

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Well...

It looks to me, after Mozilla "rebuts" these flaws, that they (or at least one of the flaws) are not any less severe than the IE7 vulnerability. Which, btw, for some reason does not appear to affect my IE7 on XP system. When I click on the "proof" on Secunia's site, I simply get a new tab with a link clearly showing the fully spoofed address, so I don't know what the big deal is. Supposedly there should be a popup (instead of a new tab) that is positioned just so that it partially covers up the address field. Not quite sure how something like that can grab headlines here on ZDNet but then again I guess it is important to ZDNet to push that "MS is teh suxorz" agenda of theirs, so there you go.

Anyway, Secunia's rating for the IE7 vulnerability is "less critical", their second lowest rating. I don't think anyone that has a clue will think that it is any more serious than the FF vulnerability. Even after Mozilla did their damage control PR. A crash (as in the FF vulnerability) should be automatically considered a high security risk because hackers can often find ways to cause arbitrary code to execute once they can reproduce a crash (hacking 101). But I am sure that won't stop the hordes of ZDNet posters from telling us just how much more "vulnerable" IE7 is compared to FF 2.0 based on these recent vulnerabilities.

At least it seems as if *both* browsers are being scrutinized.

Posted by: Qbt   Posted on: 10/25/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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