10-02-2006, 06:02 PM
Unless there is a bug in OS X that this Firefox flaw can exploit, most I can see happening is the stack overflow will attempt to access memory locations outside the application. The OS won't allow that, and at worst you get a crash of Firefox. Or is that the best case scenario, as code attempting to do bad stuff should get stomped on by the OS. The same should hold for Linux, but there are a enough variants around that some might be vulnerable.
Windows is a different case since the UI ties directly into the kernel. So there is one less protection from malicious code. The same holds with some of the desktop environments for Linux's, as they have the option to be installed as privileged instead of just as user mode software.
Windows is a different case since the UI ties directly into the kernel. So there is one less protection from malicious code. The same holds with some of the desktop environments for Linux's, as they have the option to be installed as privileged instead of just as user mode software.