Breaking browsers: a survey

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey Putnam;Kaleb Albee

  • Affiliations:
  • Eastern Washington University;Eastern Washington University

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Genetic programming can be used to explore browser vulnerabilities by generating HTML and over time learning what fragments of HTML crash browsers or cause them to run very slowly. A number of browsers have been evaluated with this technique and the results are reported.