Opera Uses Mozilla Fuzzer Tool To Find 'Highly Severe' Bug | Linux Today

Opera Uses Mozilla Fuzzer Tool To Find ‘Highly Severe’ Bug

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 17, 2007

“Opera Software found and patched what it’s calling a ‘highly
severe’ bug in its flagship browser, using a security tool released
by its competitor, Mozilla.

“During the recent Black Hat security conference, the Mozilla
Foundation made the JavaScript fuzzer, an open-source application
testing security testing tool, available to anyone who wants to use
it. Mozilla has been using it to detect and fix dozens of security
bugs in Firefox, according Window Snyder, who is head of Mozilla’s
product security…”


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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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