Major browsers bitten by security bugs

By Robert Lemos
Posted on ZDNet News: Oct 20, 2004 8:37:00 PM

For every browser, a security bug.

That seemed to be Wednesday's lesson from security information provider Secunia for the developers of the major Internet browsers. The company released information on two common security issues with the tabbed browsing feature found in several flavors of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers, the Opera browser, the Konqueror browser for Linux and two third-party plug-ins that add the feature to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

One flaw would let a malicious Web site that's open in one tabbed window have access to the information typed into another tabbed window. The other flaw lets a malicious Web site open a dialog box that seems to originate from a site displayed in a different browser tab.

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Nearly useless statistics: Number of hits without number of shots tells nothing of value. If 1623 hits on IE is out of 5,000,000 tries, that's not bad. If 20 Firefox hits is out of 25 shots, that's horrendous. Now, I know what ... (Read the rest); Posted by: BruceWheelock@... Posted on: 04/04/05 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use

firefox eLurker | 10/20/04

That makes two of us htotten | 10/20/04

Say what? quietkey | 10/20/04

Say What? htotten | 10/20/04

Sorry, not saying that quietkey | 10/20/04

The difference is.. d_jedi | 10/21/04

If you expect michael-t | 10/20/04

exactly Jeff Spicoli | 10/20/04

No! wresnick | 10/21/04

No big deal Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/20/04

actually, no doh123 | 10/21/04

1.0 is almost out CobraA1 | 10/20/04

everyone missing the point eLurker | 10/20/04

heh CobraA1 | 10/21/04

Standards Compliance? rdwhitti | 10/21/04

So What Are You Suggesting? coffeenite | 10/21/04

Only that Firefox isn't for everything rdwhitti | 10/21/04

don't dump IE bugmenotznet | 10/21/04

Personally.. d_jedi | 10/21/04

one opinion eLurker | 10/21/04

The problem is.. d_jedi | 10/21/04

kde eLurker | 10/21/04

(nt) Is that available for Windows? d_jedi | 10/22/04

if you are running windows, you have bigger problems... eLurker | 10/22/04

For once.. d_jedi | 10/21/04

Lets have a big LOL jimk_z | 10/20/04

I did, actually.. d_jedi | 10/21/04

Who told you that security is only an IE problem? bugmenotznet | 10/21/04

Open Source woes mojoman_x@... | 10/20/04

What a waste of a message quietkey | 10/20/04

Unix Whiner mojoman_x@... | 10/20/04

Ohh...kewl! Cardinal_Bill | 10/20/04

Be a little michael-t | 10/20/04

heh. The green screens are leaving them in the dark. jimk_z | 10/20/04

Strawman........ middle of nowhere | 10/21/04

So? Every OS has bugs. Talk about stating the obvious! (nt) CobraA1 | 10/20/04

Yup....Its called growing up to reality jimk_z | 10/20/04

Well... BitTwiddler | 10/21/04

What browsers DO NOT have in common michael-t | 10/20/04

which eLurker | 10/20/04

Still ... michael-t | 10/20/04

still ... eLurker | 10/21/04

When the Mozilla and Firefox... boomslang_z | 10/21/04

Nearly useless statistics BruceWheelock@... | 04/04/05

Major browsers bitten by security bugs Loverock Davidson | 10/20/04

Here is another hard fact of life Taz_z | 10/21/04

Those exploits don't work Nigel Johnstone | 10/20/04

Worked on Firefox for me, but... doe_z | 10/20/04

A suggested alternate attack Nigel Johnstone | 10/20/04

Funny... PA-ITGuy | 10/21/04

Forgot to mention PA-ITGuy | 10/21/04

He was talking about the second one in his response. (nt) doe_z | 10/21/04

I understand what you are saying... doe_z | 10/21/04

Exactly wresnick | 10/21/04

My my... Cardinal_Bill | 10/20/04

Give it up buddy. Security isnt an MS only issue. jimk_z | 10/20/04

You're right middle of nowhere | 10/21/04

did you read the article? doh123 | 10/21/04

It's not but... wresnick | 10/21/04

Security isnt an MS only issue. Cardinal_Bill | 10/21/04

what does a man with cancer and a healthy man have in common V Sanders | 10/21/04

IE exploits are Windows OS exploits whisperycat | 10/21/04

Another exploit, blah blah blah NightWatchman_z | 10/21/04

That misses the point wresnick | 10/21/04

Sigh, here come the Open Source haters kensys | 10/21/04

Minds can move mountains, but not close minds kensys | 10/21/04

So they won't fix the beta skeptic tank | 10/21/04

An observation as to a possible backdoor domirr@... | 10/22/04

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