There's a Hole in Firefox 3!

Techtree News Staff, Jun 20, 2008 1650 hrs IST

Some place else though, Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative announced finding the very first vulnerability -- also within five hours of the browser's release.

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Barely five hours into the release of Firefox 3, the browser had garnered nearly 1.6 million downloads -- a number achieved by its very own predecessor - Firefox 2 - only at the end of one entire day. The Mozilla Web site continued under pressure, 9,000 free copies per minute and rearing to go -- to break that all new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.

Some place else though, Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative announced finding the very first vulnerability -- also within five hours of the browser's release. The tradition being not to disclose specifics of a vulnerability until the vendor has had a chance to patch the same, yet, Tipping Point verified the vulnerability and rated it as 'critical'. A blog post said the vulnerability that also affects Firefox 2, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code if explored.

Tipping Point promptly reported the vulnerability to the Mozilla team, and the latter is said to be working on a fix for the same.

Vulnerability or no vulnerability, Firefox 3 has managed to break a new record, registering 8.3 million downloads in the very first day. Perhaps it's time for one more cake, is the Microsoft IE team listening?

USER COMMENTS

Actually, worse, found and reported another, more severe one. When a user now closes his browsewr, I can come later, turn it on, and it even re-opens FULLY LOGGED banking or email accounts, which nevr havppened with any previous version. So it's not just the same window that opens, but the sessions is re-logged on!!!

by Chris, ottawa, on Jun 20, 2008 05:45 PM, Report abuse Reply

Chris, I agree with you. I have had similar situation. Thanks for reporting this "bug" to mozilla team. Techgeek

by Techgeek, Bangalore, on Jun 20, 2008 09:21 PM, Report abuse

this is no bug u idiots!

by feri, vank, on Jun 21, 2008 01:26 AM, Report abuse

its a very basic thing that you need to know and its not a bug Mr.Chris... Learn how session work

by Anonymous, Chennai, on Jun 23, 2008 04:47 PM, Report abuse

stupids its not a but at all, you can cleear the cookies each time you turn off the firefox, even you dont have to do anything firefox itself will do it, you just hev to select an option in it. Beforf writing any reviews and comments just explore the things you idiots.

by foxfan, chennai, on Jun 23, 2008 04:48 PM, Report abuse

stupids its not a but at all, you can clear the cookies each time you turn off the firefox, even you dont have to do anything firefox itself will do it, you just have to select an option in it. Before writing any reviews and comments just explore the things you idiots.

by foxfan, chennai, on Jun 23, 2008 04:52 PM, Report abuse

Hei! This news is ridiculous. Check at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/. I have reported them a critical bug before the time that ur news is saying.. Someone is always finding publicity..

by Karthikeyan, Chennai, on Jun 21, 2008 04:28 PM, Report abuse Reply

since downloading my machine is running slow

by agg arrowsmith, MANDURAH, on Jun 21, 2008 03:53 PM, Report abuse Reply

Yeah yeah u need mirch masala to sell... There is no major flaw in the software.

by Annkur, Mumbai, on Jun 21, 2008 11:54 AM, Report abuse Reply

Takes time to open but otherwise its good

by sanjeets, Delhi, on Jun 21, 2008 11:16 AM, Report abuse Reply

great but cant hear sound for online videos just a loud buzz

by Anonymous, bentley, on Jun 21, 2008 08:21 AM, Report abuse Reply

Excellent article.. wonderfull written...

by Manikandan, Mumbai, on Jun 21, 2008 08:10 AM, Report abuse Reply

firefox is for sure the most user friendly and powerfull environment a person can be in while on the internet. although its sometimes giving me a problem with playing live streams. currently using internet exporer and safari for the same reason, i find the usability missing in a lot of places.

by Bhuvan chowdhar, Pune, on Jun 21, 2008 03:21 AM, Report abuse Reply

OPEN SOURCE ROCKS! MICROSOFT SUCKS!!

by Arnov Sarkar, New Delhi, on Jun 20, 2008 09:14 PM, Report abuse Reply

easy honey...its OS failure reported here. Keep it cool.

by Xavier, Blore, on Jun 21, 2008 12:50 AM, Report abuse

I also downloaded it and yeah its the best web browser

by chirag, india, on Jun 20, 2008 07:28 PM, Report abuse Reply

Interesting news

by Geithal, Perinthalmanna, on Jun 20, 2008 05:51 PM, Report abuse Reply