New Browser Exploit Every Day in July

Posted July 6, 2006 at 9:08 am in cat10

What do you get when computer geeks begin stockpiling unpatched exploits for highly popular web browsers? An entire month of brand new ways to bring you’re browser to a stand still and 31 new possibilities at allowing a nefarious persons to run arbitrary code on your system. Noted security expert HD Moore is doing exactly that.

This blog will serve as a dumping ground for browser-based security research and vulnerability disclosure. To kick off this blog, we are announcing the Month of Browser Bugs (MoBB), where we will publish a new browser hack, every day, for the entire month of July. The hacks we publish are carefully chosen to demonstrate a concept without disclosing a direct path to remote code execution. Enjoy!

Since most of the bugs are reported to be Internet Explorer issues and considering how slowly Microsoft is known to address problems, it’s likely these could turn into something far worse then a simple crash (since that’s really a gateway to code execution). To be fair to MS, I’m assuming that most of these are unknown to them. If that’s the cause, you can’t really blame them for their existence; it’s just the nature of coding software. So this could be a great test of the company’s recent commitment to protecting it’s users.

Update: I’m retarded. Most of the bugs listed so far indicate they were reported to Microsoft. Many of them months ago.

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2 Comments

  1. Wow! That’s kind of scary? I would say good thing I use firefox but it even has bugs there LOL

  2. Hm, they only managed to pull up one bug for Opera? Mwahaha.

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