{"id":35008,"date":"2022-02-12T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T00:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35008"},"modified":"2022-02-12T19:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T00:49:35","slug":"the-time-to-fix-web-security-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/12\/the-time-to-fix-web-security-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time to Fix Web Security Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brucel\/status\/1492069727165980688\">Bruce Lawson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brucel\/status\/1492069727165980688\"><p>One of the reasons Apple gives  for the #AppleBrowserBan is to protect user&rsquo;s privacy and security by fixing bugs quickly:<\/p><p>&ldquo;By requiring use of WebKit, Apple can provide security updates to all our users quickly and accurately, no matter which browser they decide to download from the App Store.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/googleprojectzero.blogspot.com\/2022\/02\/a-walk-through-project-zero-metrics.html\">Ryan Schoen<\/a>, Project Zero (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=30289206\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/googleprojectzero.blogspot.com\/2022\/02\/a-walk-through-project-zero-metrics.html\"><p>Specifically: after a vendor receives a report of a security issue, how much of the &ldquo;time to fix&rdquo; is spent between the bug report and landing the fix, and how much time is spent between landing that fix and releasing a build with the fix?<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Chrome is currently the fastest of the three browsers, with time from bug report to releasing a fix in the stable channel in 30 days. The time to patch is very fast here, with just an average of 5 days between the bug report and the patch landing in public.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>WebKit is the outlier in this analysis, with the longest number of days to release a patch at 73 days.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>For Apple, we&rsquo;re pleased with the acceleration of patches landing, as well as the recent lack of use of grace periods as well as lack of missed deadlines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/07\/the-danger-of-sideloading-chromium\/\">The Danger of Sideloading Chromium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/17\/safari-15-indexeddb-information-leaks\/\">Safari 15 IndexedDB Information Leaks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/15\/safari-indexeddb-bug\/\">Safari IndexedDB Bug<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/the-hotel-cupertino-clause\/\">The Hotel Cupertino Clause<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Lawson: One of the reasons Apple gives for the #AppleBrowserBan is to protect user&rsquo;s privacy and security by fixing bugs quickly:&ldquo;By requiring use of WebKit, Apple can provide security updates to all our users quickly and accurately, no matter which browser they decide to download from the App Store.&rdquo; Ryan Schoen, Project Zero (Hacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-13T00:48:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"485bdd24-0786-4c64-8297-bafd5fee3721","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-13T00:49:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASFvdJAeGTGSCl7r9X-43IQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,412,31,2078,103,48,96,328],"class_list":["post-35008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-chromium","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-safari","tag-security","tag-web","tag-webkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35012,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008\/revisions\/35012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}