Major browsers bitten by security bugs

No_Style · Oct 21, 2004, 04:31 AM

That seemed to be Wednesday's lesson from security information provider Secunia for the developers of the major Internet browsers. The company released information on two common security issues with the tabbed browsing feature found in several flavors of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers, the Opera browser, the Konqueror browser for Linux and two third-party plug-ins that add the feature to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

One flaw would let a malicious Web site that's open in one tabbed window have access to the information typed into another tabbed window. The other flaw lets a malicious Web site open a dialog box that seems to originate from a site displayed in a different browser tab.
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Oct 21, 2004, 04:31 AM	#1
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	Major browsers bitten by security bugs That seemed to be Wednesday's lesson from security information provider Secunia for the developers of the major Internet browsers. The company released information on two common security issues with the tabbed browsing feature found in several flavors of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers, the Opera browser, the Konqueror browser for Linux and two third-party plug-ins that add the feature to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. One flaw would let a malicious Web site that's open in one tabbed window have access to the information typed into another tabbed window. The other flaw lets a malicious Web site open a dialog box that seems to originate from a site displayed in a different browser tab. _______________ Read More/Source: C\|Net Tech News __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here