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

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Message-ID: <3eab9ed60709292325x152bee2akdd41faac7e8705fe@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:55:25 +0530
From: "Jimby Sharp" <jimbysharp@...il.com>
To: "Andrew Farmer" <andfarm@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0.0.7 has a very serious
	calculation bug

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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