full-disclosure - Re: Firefox 2.0.0.7 has a very serious calculation bug

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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:58:29 -0700
From: "James Matthews" <nytrokiss@...il.com>
To: "Jimby Sharp" <jimbysharp@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0.0.7 has a very serious
	calculation bug

Correct! The line is always "there is no patch for human stupidity"

On 9/29/07, Jimby Sharp <jimbysharp@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Exactly! And the so called security experts who are giving long
> lectures in the list about how any bug can result in a potential
> security flaw, they are forgetting that if a security flaw arises it
> arises because of the programmer and not Firefox.
>
> If I use strcpy() to read user input into a buffer, I am at fault and
> not C compiler.
>
> On 9/30/07, Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com> wrote:
> > On 28 Sep 07, at 19:25, wac wrote:
> > > On 9/28/07, Jimby Sharp <jimbysharp@...il.com> wrote:
> > >> How is this serious and is it related to security in any manner? If
> > >> not, please do not spam. :-(
> > >
> > >  Many bugs are security related (I would say all). How it is security
> > > related? Think. What happens if your bank calculates something
> > > wrong and
> > > puts the lower in your account and the higher in another account?
> > > Yes It
> > > might be little but what about a little many
> > > times? That could be done with javascript too. Then... you are not
> > > safe
> > > anymore.
> >
> > If your bank is doing financial calculations using Javascript in a
> > standard web browser, you have bigger things to worry about than
> > roundoff errors.
> >
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