It is also present in the preview branches of Developer and Nightly editions. The bug affects the latest stable build of Firefox. Inconvenient yes, but at least no potentially damaging hard reboot is necessary. On Mac or Linux-based computers, the bug is observable and present, although it will only crash the browser. Interestingly, the vulnerability seems to be a problem for Windows machines. It, therefore, floods the IPC (Inter-Process Communication) channel between Firefox’s child and main process, making the browser at the very least freeze.”Īfter #Mailsploit, releasing #BrowserReaper so you can kill your browser. “What happens is that the script generates a file (a blob) that contains an extremely long filename and prompts the user to download it every one millisecond.
The researcher spoke to ZDNet about how the vulnerability manifests: Haddouche says the vulnerability harms the running process of the browser and can freeze the whole OS. It seems this bug has wider consequences on Windows devices when running through Firefox. Software engineer and security researcher Sabri Haddouche already disclosed a flaw that leads to Safari, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge crashing on iPhones.
In other words, the bug could result in machines crashing and needing to be hard rebooted. However, a new vulnerability in the browser has the potential to crash the program and the OS on Windows PCs. Bugs that crash Firefox used to be common but are now thankfully not regularly occurring events. $ firefox -safe-modeĮxceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 3437ĮxceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to childĮxceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal.įailed to open curl lib from binary, use libcurl.Anyone who uses Firefox will know Mozilla has done plenty over recent years to prevent bugs that crash the browser.
I can provide more details about my configuration (not sure what is relevant). I have un/re/installed Firefox, and I have tried running it in Safe Mode - same crashes.ĭid anyone encounter this / know how to fix it? The connection works, I can open programs inside my remote desktop session, and I can use the Browser Ubuntu app (a web browser). I have installed XFCE4 on Ubuntu and I am using Remote Desktop (mstsc) from Windows 10 to connect to the Ubuntu machine. I am accessing the Ubuntu machine remotely from Windows 10, via RDP. I have looked at the crash report, but there is nothing illuminating in there. I can run Firefox (v52.0) on the computer as long as I am logged into it directly, but Firefox crashes every time if I try to launch it in an RDP window. I have set up a fresh copy of Ubuntu 16.10 on an old PC.
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