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Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked
From: "Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 19:46:38 -0400
Well, that's one way to crunch the numbers. Of course, IE 6 has been out since 2001, Firefox 1.x was released three years later. Looking at the advisories on a timeframe basis for 2005, Firefox 1.x has had 12 Secunia advisories compared to 6 for IE 6. In other words, the odds you're banking on shift quite a bit depending on how you look at it. -- Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Paynter" <eric () arcticbears com> To: <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked On Sun, May 8, 2005 7:49 am, Bipin Gautam said:
Looking at the current record, what makes you guys think firefox won't beat IE 6 for security holes. (o;
According to secunia.com: IE 6.x has had 80 advisories, of which 42% (34 advisories) were rated highly or extremely critical, and 3 critical advisories are still unpatched after several months. Firefox 1.x has had 16 advisories, of which 19% (3 advisories) were rated highly or extremely critical, and only 1 critical advisory is still unpatched, but it's only been in that state for a few days, and a patch is on its way. Soon, we will once again have no unpatched critical vulnerabilities with Firefox, and we will still have three or more with IE. I still like my odds with Firefox. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and dns services http://www.arcticbears.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Jason Coombs (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Vincent van Scherpenseel (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Bipin Gautam (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Eric Paynter (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Mary Landesman (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Eric Paynter (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Mary Landesman (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked bkfsec (May 10)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Vincent van Scherpenseel (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Jason Coombs (May 08)
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