dvnityCker Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 An independent researcher needed just 15 minutes to find the first bug in the Beta 2 preview release of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 browser. Tom Ferris, of Mission Viejo, Calif., published his findings Tuesday just hours after Microsoft released the beta code. Ferris discovered the bug, which causes Internet Explorer to crash when it tries to read a specially crafted HTML file, using an automated security testing tool, called a "fuzzer" that he wrote to test Microsoft's browsers. "Whenever they patch, I normally run IE through the fuzzing iterations, just to see if there [is something new]," he said. Ferris posted his findings at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, the same day Internet Explorer Beta 2 was released, he said. Right now the bug can be exploited only to crash the browser, but Ferris says it's likely that his attack could eventually be modified to run unauthorized code on a user's machine. The vulnerability appears to be exclusive to Internet Explorer Beta 2 browser, he said. "This is a completely new bug. I've never actually seen this in any browser before." Microsoft was not immediately able to comment on Ferris's findings. A spokeswoman for the company's public relations agency said Microsoft is "looking into this." Ferris has previously discovered bugs in the Firefox and Safari browsers, as well as in Windows XP, but even he was surprised at the quickness with which this latest vulnerability popped up. Ferris' discovery is one of the quickest such bug-findings on record, said Mikko Hypponen, manager of antivirus research at F-Secure Corp. in Helsinki, Finland. "It's probably the fastest from launch to exploit that I've ever heard about," he said. Microsoft spent millions to improve its software development process to make it more secure. The company has promoted Internet Explorer Beta 2 as a more secure product. But Ferris believes that his research shows that the software giant still has work to do in this area. "I think that they're still lacking very common security testing methods. I looked at it for 15 minutes and I was able to find a clean bug," he said. "They still have a lot of work to do." Rok za izlazak Viste je jos uvek daleko, nadam se da ce Microsoft do tada napraviti kompetentan browser, dostojan njihovog imena Quote The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stalja Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 A kad je napravio win dostojan imena :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickwood Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Svakog puta, If you know what I mean. Quote Ovdashnji P.S> nickwoode, zasto se ne "log_out"-ujes kad si na forumu sa mog kompa? DovlaGSI :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doca Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 ^^no...:) ma svi mi kenjamo a 99% koristi win... a sto se tice IE...ne treba komentarisati... kad mi treba razlog za format samo surfujem preko IE :))) Quote Novi forum smrdi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvnityCker Posted February 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 A kad je napravio win dostojan imena :) ← microsoft je izgradio ime na windowsu, tako da su windows i microsoft svojevrsni sinonim jedno za drugo.. sto je ukratko i objasnjenje i onog sto je nickwood rekao :) Quote The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 šta fali xp-u? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvnityCker Posted February 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 service pack 3 :)) sto se mene tice, xp je odlican os... Quote The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZerBah Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Kada bi bilo vishe ljudi koji bi zeleli da pomognu da se iskorene greshke u softveru od onih koji ih traze da bi smarali M$, bilo bi mnogo bezbednije surfovati netom... Ali ne, vazno je da je M$ opet "zasrao". Quote А в чем сила, брат? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvnityCker Posted February 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 ne verujem da ih traze da bi smarali MS, nego da bi eksploatisali te greske na racun korisnika microsofta, kojih je jako puno ... sasvim druga je prica zasto je to tako, tj zasto su ljudi zli :) Quote The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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