IE7 Bug Reports Start To Come In
The advantages of such a highly publicized beta: Lots of people noticing the quirks you might have missed in testing. Several outlets are reporting on the bugs already noticed in Microsoft Beta 2 Preview of Internet Explorer 7. Besides multiple Google Toolbar bugs (which never would have happened if they hadn’t released so close to each other), we’re seeing:
- Tom Ferris: “A denial of service vulnerability exists within Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 which allows for an attacker to cause the browser to crash, and or to execute arbitrary code on the targeted host.”
- Users are unable to launch the McAfee Security Center
- Some antispyware apps won’t let a DLL register
- Some online banking sites won’t work (because they look strictly for IE6), like Washington Mutual
- Sometimes, you can’t see what you’ve typed. I can confirm this bug myself.
- Can’t open drupal RSS feeds
- Multiple Gmail rendering bugs
- Multiple rendering issues on Tribe.net
Notice any others?
What is Tom Ferris’s evidence that the DOS can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the user’s system? He sounds like another in a long line of attention-whoring idiots.
Comment by Stu | February 2, 2006
See here: http://drupal.org/node/47617 for the RSS issue with Drupal. There is a link to the reason why in the post.
Comment by sepeck | February 3, 2006