A new bug on Firefox can crash your computer j5u63

Published on 24/09/2018

Browsers are among the most commonly used software in everyday life. So, when bugs are detected and they occur regularly, it can become a real hell for the . Today, a new bug at Firefox has been detected that can simply crash your computer.

It was Sabri Haddouche, a software engineer who had already discovered a vulnerability around the iPhone, who revealed this bug. According to Haddouche, the Firefox problem causes the browser process to block, which sometimes freezes the operating system. The only solution for the is to restart his machine by force.

Interviewed by the ZDNet site, the engineer gave a little more detail on this bug: “What is happening is that the script generates a file (a blob) that contains an extremely long filename and invites the to it every millisecond. It therefore overloads the IPC (Inter Process Communication) channel between Firefox processes and makes the browser very slow.

This problem particularly affects Windows s. Indeed, on Mac and Linux, the bug causes the browser to stop but has no effect on the operating system. Mobile versions of Firefox (for Android and iOS) are not affected by the bug. In any case, if your version of Firefox gets out of control and the system crashes, there is a good chance that the browser is the cause. Let’s hope a small corrective update arrives soon.

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