New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit

An anonymous reader writes "News sources are reporting that a 'killer' new Firefox exploit has been revealed today by FrSIRT who warn that this 0day exploit/vulnerability (as yet unpatched) should be rated as critical. Summary of the exploit: If a user clicks anywhere on a specially crafted page, this code will automatically create and execute a malicious batch/exe file. Proof of concept code supplied by FrSIRT."

Uh oh!

[kryogen1x]

Hey everyone let's use IE now, because it's safer than Firefox.

Oh, wait.

gah

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Fantastic. Now we'll see Microsoft going "OMG DON'T USE FIREFOX YOU CAN'T EVEN CLICK ON SOMETHING SAFELY!". I guess this is at least 1 step up from "just come to the page, we'll own your PC and you don't even need a mouse".

Re:Uh oh!

[tomjen]

At least firefox is safer than lynx - no one has been arested for using firefox - yet.

And cue...

[Anonymous Coward]

...hilarious fan-boi apologism (wherein mind-crushingly tortured logic spins this awful security flaw into something that is actually a feature yet another reason why Firefox is better than IE!) in 5...4...3...2...1...

Summery?

[Anonymous Coward]

Exploit summery? Well, the weather is improving but I doubt that the exploit caused it.

Re:Pretty serious exploit

[Mathiasdm]

You converted 45 % of your family to Firefox?

Tried it on my Mac...

[Anonymous Coward]

didn't work

I keep clicking on the exe files...

[DaGoodBoy]

...but Firefox keeps suggesting I run it with Wine. I don't get it, I'm not thirsty. I'd rather run it with a nice plate of steak and eggs.

What?

[Koiu Lpoi]

There's... a bug... in firefox?? *gasp* *hack* *cough* I think... I may be having a heart attack... They told me it was so much better! *wheeze*

New FrSIRT Vulnerability

[NitsujTPU]

FrSIRT Vurnerability Alert!!

FrSIRT will go down 2 minutes after the start of a brutal Slashdotting.

That's cuz "it just works" on Microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

They don't know why, or how. It just does.

Re:Yup - secure...

[HermanAB]

Uh, you mean, you just send everyone a 300MB file, instead of a 20MB browser - have you seen the size of SP2???

Re:gah

[Albinofrenchy]

Are you serious? Somehow you mixed up my post with the parent post and constructed some form of elaborate world where you were right and witty.

Unfortunatly, you lack the cognitive ability to figure out context and are flaming someone who is more or less on your side of this debate.