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Months Of Bugs Good For Users
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-05-18
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The past few months of daily bug releases for technologies like browsers, kernels, and the ongoing ActiveX are having an impact on the updates of those products.
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In June, the Month of Search Engine Bugs will begin, just as May's Month of ActiveX Bugs comes to an end. Prior to May, we have seen Months of Browser, Kernel, Apple, PHP, and MySpace Bugs being gleefully posted to the Internet by security researchers.
McAfee researcher Kevin Beets asked the big question on the Avert Labs blog: do these postings help get bugs fixed quickly?
The answer seems to be a conditional yes. Many of these bugs were not high-priority ones due to their low risk of exploitation. Local issues like denial of service flaws are annoying, but they can't be attacked remotely, for example.
Based on the bugs that have been reported compared to the ones that are patched, technology vendors have been taking notice. The numbers are not hard and fast correlations, however. A number of the PHP bugs were reported in advance before being published, for one example.
It appears the whole "Month Of" meme will be sticking around. "In the end, these projects are about education-of vendors, administrators, and developers," said Beets.
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Tags: Computer, Security, Month Of Bugs
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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