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December 27, 2004

Other browser "not up top par" with IE

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Referenencing the firefox thread that was going on earlier, I ran across this article:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/378632

that concludes " It appears that the overall quality of code, and more importantly, the
  amount of QA, on various browsers touted as "secure", is not up to par
  with MSIE; the type of a test I performed requires no human interaction
  and involves nearly no effort. Only MSIE appears to be able to
  consistently handle [*] malformed input well, suggesting this is the
  only program that underwent rudimentary security QA testing with a
  similar fuzz utility."

FYI,
Brett

End of Article



Reader Comments
What are you smoking, Brett?

Or are you touting MSIE because you're a hijacker?

Or is Micro$soft paying you to spew FUD?

Or maybe you're just not as smart as you'd like us to believe.

Anonymous User January 25, 2005


http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/379207

"(...)although it did take a longer
while for it to give up - three hours - (impressive by comparison to
competitors), it eventually did:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ie_die1.html

Tested on 6.0.2800.1106, dies in mshtml.dll. This is a NULL pointer
dereference, so merely a DoS condition, but still an evident flaw in
basic HTML parsing.

******************************************************************
* This means that VIRTUALLY EVERY BROWSER IN USE TODAY is unable *
* to securely render HTML. Keeping in mind that not only web *
* browsing, but also integrated e-mail is at risk, it is a grim *
* thought. *
******************************************************************

Anonymous User September 07, 2005 (Article Rating: )


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