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Fun with Browsers

By Wired Blogs July 5, 2006 Categories: Web Basics

The browser watchers are at it this month. The BrowserFun blog is posting one browser exploit a day for every day in July. They’re calling it MoBB — the Month of Browser Bugs. Most of the exploits are for Internet Explorer (gee, really?) but some of them expose flaws in Firefox as well. Today’s demonstration crashes Safari using the DHTML setAttributeNode vulnerability. I run a Mac, so I took the bait. Here’s the result:

In the interest of forwarding security on the web, the group at BrowserFun hopes to push browser developers to patch their products and come up with fixes for these exploits. It’s a noble cause with a little bit of egg-on-the-face fun mixed in. Track all 31 bugs at browserfun.blogspot.com

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