Fun with browser bugs
About a week or so ago I came across this blog put together by a fairly well known internet security guru that is currently exposing one browser security bug for every day of this month (July 2006). He is providing proof of concept code to illustrate the errors/vulnerabilities but is not providing the means to exploit them (you have to figure that out for yourself).
Not surprisingly Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has already managed to sneak itself on there ten out of twelve days so far. Many of these bugs Microsoft has already been aware of (since March) and has yet to do anything about it. This is a great example why you should switch to any browser other than Internet Explorer.
The other two browsers mentioned thusfar are Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari. However Firefox’s bug has already been fixed and released in its latest version.
It will be interesting to see how the bug count turns out, browser to browser. It has been reported that he has issues for many browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Konqueror. I get the feeling that the results might come out just a little one-sided.
Here is the link to the blog where the code is being posted:
http://browserfun.blogspot.com/