Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office

Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-07-20

For most of the summer, Microsoft's Office product teams have had little time for development.

Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office 2006-07-21
Anonymous

I have to say it: Good! Report every issue, no matter how minor, even if only 1% get fixed, that's still more than before--and that makes a better and more secure product....

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take openoffice for a spin? 2006-07-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

it's sad to see so many people doing unpaid work for microsoft, when they could donate their effort to hacking openoffice. ...

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Re: take openoffice for a spin? 2006-11-21
Anonymous

yea true, plus with open office there is no need to fuzz b/c there are so many glaring vulnerabilities that just leap out of the source code at you.....

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The same shame, again and again 2006-07-25
assurbanipal

"Given the number of Office flaws, it really feels like someone is fuzzing Microsoft Office and creating malicious files with the results"

Yes, someone... but not Micro$oft itself, in spite of their humongous financial resources.

Never heard of fuzzers before, Bill? And you, Stephen Toulouse? When...

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The obvious 2006-08-03
Fabiano

Microsoft (any) developers should use such tools in advance.

Basis of software engineering includes white and black-box testing, right?

The problem clearly is what is their focus in? Security?...

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