Thursday, December 11, 2008

Blog: Firefox Tops List of Most Known Vulnerabilities in Applications

SANS NewsBites Vol. 10 Num. 97

Fri, 12 Dec 2008

--Firefox Tops List of Most Known Vulnerabilities in Applications (December 11, 2008)

Whitelisting company Bit9 has compiled statistics on the applications with the most security vulnerabilities reported over the last year.

Mozilla's Firefox web browser versions 2 and 3 top the list with 40 reported flaws. Adobe Acrobat versions 8.1.1 and 8.1.2 follow with 31 reported flaws. Windows Live (MSN) Messenger versions 4.7 and 5.1 came in third with 19 flaws. Fourth and fifth place were taken by Apple iTunes versions 3.2 and 3.1.2 and Skype version 3.5.0.248, respectively.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2232492/firefox-tops-app-vulnerability

http://www.bit9.com/news-events/press-release-details.php?id=102

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