Topic: SECURITY - on July 12, 2004 at 11:37:00 PM CEST
IE vs. Mozilla on the Shell Hole—Whose Bug Is It?
Opinion: Mozilla exposed the scheme, opened the hole. Now it's a debate in security circles. But the only way this is a vulnerability in Windows is if it's a vulnerability for a shell to be able to run programs.
In the wake of last week's revelation of a security hole in Mozilla that allows the execution of arbitrary programs on the client system a philosophical debate has emerged: Is this a bug in Mozilla or a bug in Windows?
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