The new Web browser from Mozilla, Firefox 3, reached a world record in downloads during the first 24 hours after its launch. However, only happen a couple of hours before it was detected the first critical vulnerability. The information was provided by Ryan Narain from the computer security company Kaspersky Labs, in his blog on ZDNet.
The company ZDI (Zero Day Initiative) which bought exclusive rights to information on software vulnerabilities has reported on the vulnerability.
According ZDI, the vulnerability in question provides the ability to intruders to run a malicious code on the victim’s computer, which in the worst case lets take control of the apparatus intervened.
The technical details of the security hole, as shown is also present in earlier versions of Firefox, were not published to avoid specific attacks.
