eWeek: IE vs. Mozilla on the Shell Hole–Whose Bug Is It?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 13, 2004

[ Thanks to
Nicholas Donovan
for this link. ]

“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?

“I think the argument is that Windows should prevent the shell
scheme from executing programs, but this isn’t a job for Windows.
This is a job for the browser. All Windows is doing in the case of
what was just patched in Mozilla is taking an instruction to run a
program and running it. If the browser didn’t ask for it, it
wouldn’t happen…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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