Firefox named most vulnerable Windows application
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:
Mozilla Firefox
Adobe Flash and Adobe Acrobat
EMC VMware Player,Workstation and other products
Sun Java JDK and JRE, Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
Apple QuickTime, Safari and iTunes
Symantec Norton products (all flavors 2006 to 2008)
Trend Micro OfficeScan
Citrix Products
Aurigma Image Uploader, Lycos FileUploader
Skype
Yahoo Assistant
Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger
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