Re: Re: Concurrency-related vulnerabilities in browsers - expect problems

"Steven M. Christey" <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:04:33 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities.watch.announce
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Some interesting work.

For those who haven't made the connection yet - concurrency issues
probably go far beyond just web browsers.  It's a safe bet that *any*
software that's multi-threaded, multi-process, event-based, or
asynchronous could have these sorts of issues.  Traditional data
manipulation techniques probably won't be effective in finding them.

In other words - concurrency is a rich area for future research, and web
browser bugs are probably the tip of the iceberg.

- Steve