Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

News.com is reporting that a pair of hackers has discovered a zero-day flaw in the increasingly popular firefox browser.

The flaw is specific to Firefox’s implementation of JavaScript, a 10-year-old scripting language widely used on the Web. In particular, various programming tricks can cause a stack overflow error, Spiegelmock said. The implementation is a “complete mess,” he said. “It is impossible to patch.”

Impossible to patch?? Wow!! I find that hard to believe. I guess we shall see how long it takes for the Firefox team to patch this flaw. The hackers also mentioned they know of about 30 unpatched Firefox flaws, but they wouldn’t release any details about what the remaining flaws were. I’ll bet it’s a sad day for the Mozilla team.