Opera Uses Mozilla Fuzzer Tool To Find And Patch Bug

Opera Logo 1 The open source community isn’t the only one to benefit from Mozilla’s decision to release their security tools. Opera Software recently identified and patched what it called a “highly severe” bug in it’s browser code. Opera used Mozilla’s Javascript fuzzer to find the bug.

Opera released version 9.23 of its browser that fixed the bug, and publicly thanked Mozilla for the fuzzer tool. Those of you using an older version of Opera should take a look at the official advisory which describes the security hole.

This is hopefully the start of more cooperation between browser vendors.

High five to Sharon Gaudin.

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2 Responses to “Opera Uses Mozilla Fuzzer Tool To Find And Patch Bug”

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Mike
August 21st, 2007 22:03

Cooperation between browser vendors? Imagine that. That would probably reduce my daily use of cuss words quite a bit ;P
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Brown Baron
August 22nd, 2007 01:12

@Mike:
Me too buddy

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