Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users

Corrado writes "CNET is reporting on a new Firefox flaw." From the article: "The problem lies in the way Firefox handles Web links that are overly long and contain dashes, security researcher Tom Ferris said in an interview via instant messaging late Thursday. He posted an advisory and a proof of concept to the Full Disclosure security mailing list and to his Security Protocols Web site...The public bug disclosure comes just as Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 1.5. The final release of the next Firefox update, which includes security enhancements, is due by year's end, according to the Firefox road map."

Comments

Expose users?

[jdray]

Did anyone else have a sudden concern that using Firefox would cause you to be "pants'ed"?

Re:Expose users?

[.sig]

I'm counting on it, I'm passing out copies of firefox to all the women I know....

Re:Expose users?

[iceborer]

Since you're a /. member, I would have thought you'd installed Firefox for your mom and little sister already.

Re:Expose users?

[sootman]

No worries, the patch is here: http://www.mozilla.org/patch-to-fix-the-problem-wi th-firefox-where-long-URLs-with-lots-of-hypohens-c an-cause-bad-things-to-happen-like-the-browser-wil l-crash-and-stuff.html

Patent infringement

[confusion]

I thought MS had a patent on unpatched browser flaws?!?!?

Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/

Re:It should be noted

[Delphiki]

So if person P is skeptical of claim C about entity E, then it logically follows that P thinks that E "can do no wrong"? That sounds a like a fringe-whacko line of thought to me.

You don't really want to get into the business of pointing out wackos on slashdot. It's easily a full time job and it doesn't pay.