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December 27, 2004 12:00 AM

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

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  • Anonymous User
    7 years ago
    Sep 07, 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
    7 years ago
    Jan 25, 2005

    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.

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