Mozilla denies security flaws in Firefox 2

The launch of Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 kicked off a race to hunt for new security flaws, experts specializing in hunting for security bugs. The race results were also quickly announced, some security bugs in IE 7 and Firefox were revealed.

Information about security flaws in IE 7 has been validated. Particularly Mozilla, yesterday (October 25), announced Firefox 2.0 does not suffer from the two newly disclosed security flaws.

Window Snyder - Mozilla's director of security - claims that the two security flaws do not put users at risk of hackers.

The security flaw disclosed through Bugtraq's secure email list is in fact a security bug that has been fixed by Mozilla in previous versions of Firefox. ' The content of the report is inaccurate ,' said Mrs. Snyder. ' These security flaws have been discovered and fixed '.

However, if the security error is exploited, it can cause Firefox browser to hang. ' It is a form of denial of service attack. We will continue to research to make sure there are no problems , 'Snyder said.

Meanwhile, another report released via the Full Disclosure email list also highlights another security flaw in Firefox 2.0 that could be exploited by online scammers to attack users. The report also includes some code to demonstrate, but Mozilla claims that information is not enough to conclude that it is a new security bug in Firefox 2.0.

' We still do not have enough information to draw conclusions. We will conduct further investigation on this issue , 'said Ms. Snyder. ' We welcome researchers to discover and publish security flaws in Firefox. However, we encourage you to report the error to us before making it public . '

Almost a week after IE 7 was released, Mozilla also officially released Firefox 2.0. Security is the primary goal of Microsoft and Mozilla in new browser versions, such as anti-phishing, phishing features .

Hoang Dung