Firefox named most vulnerable Windows application

[KSoD]

In a list, published by security firm Bit9, of 12 most vulnerable applications for the Windows platform, Firefox finished at the top of the list.

The browser has earned the reputation from Mozilla patching 10 vulnerabilities which could be used to gain control, access, or execute miscellaneous code via buffer overflow, malformed URI links, javascript, documents and third party tools.

The browser is well respected throughout its open source community. Users can download add-ons, themes and many other tweaks that users can be used to adjust, modify and tweak their browser for maximum performance and appearance.

Bit9 posted a list of the top 12 vulnerable applications:

1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Adobe Flash and Adobe Acrobat
3. EMC VMware Player,Workstation and other products
4. Sun Java JDK and JRE, Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
5. Apple QuickTime, Safari and iTunes
6. Symantec Norton products (all flavors 2006 to 2008)
7. Trend Micro OfficeScan
8. Citrix Products
9. Aurigma Image Uploader, Lycos FileUploader
10. Skype
11. Yahoo Assistant
12. Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger

Source

 

[Osiris]

Great news

 

[Hefemeister]

Ouch. I run 5 of the programs on that list. Thanks for the info.

 

[KSoD]

I run 4 of them.

In the first one now.

Great news

Did you already beat me to this post as well?

 

[Osiris]

Nope, you got me on this one

 

[hrlow2]

No wonder I feel safe. Don't use Firefox or IE or anything else that I know of thats on that list.

 

[Trotter]

It got dinged for patching the holes? In that case, IE would be dead last, huh?

 

[Nick]

My dad's company uses Citrix...

 

[Tim]

ouch
I use 5 of those....

My IT teacher tryed to install Sun Java Runtime Environment, it crashed the School Server

 

[Fat.Clown]

woot for firefox........... oh wait! bad foxy!
in for 4