2 FireFox and IE on the Balance

1 November, 2006

Lamentably for to2 the users whom we like to use FireFox. The recent news published in the National Vulnerability Database, where it presents that it has been found a new vulnerability, catalogued like “Critic by Mozilla”, since brings about the fall of navigators Firefox 1.5.0.7 and 2,0 Firefox each you see that it is tried to create a Range object by means of CreateRange. It makes us compare and put in the balance, the launching of FireFox 2,0, with the one of Internet Explorer 7.

• Will get to have FireFox 2 the same number of vulnerabilities that IE?
• Whatever will be the found ones in the first 15 days of their launching?

We can predict not yet it. We only can at the moment be concentrated in analyzing encontra2 already. And what we know of this new “failure”, it is that having the active Javascript, it is very probable that it is possible to be exploded and to be manipulated of remote form, although has still not demonstrated that the execution of code is allowed.

Then or you know, if you are using 2 version or 1.5.0.7 and want to create a Range object, the unique thing that you will receive like answer, is an immediate closing, _si you are using Linux_, and or the well-known window of warning of error and closes, _si you are using Windows_…

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