In the wake of all the hullaballoo over the IE flaws, Mozilla and Opera have also announced major flaws in their browsers. While Mozilla have also announced a patch, Opera are yet to do so.
The Mozilla Foundation has issued patches for a flaw in its browsers that could allow an attacker to execute existing applications on a Windows XP machine. Researchers have also discovered a bug in Opera Software ASA's browser that could be exploited to make users falsely believe they are visiting a trusted website, such as a banking site.
A database collating advisories from various sources, has collected 54 vulnerability advisories for IE 6.x during 2003 and 2004, 42 percent of which were "highly critical " or "extremely critical", and 32 percent of which granted system access. Opera 7.x had 26 bugs, 17 percent of which were highly or extremely critical, and Mozilla 1.3 and later had a total of 12 advisories, none of which were more than moderately critical.
PC Advisor has this piece.
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