Mozilla has issued a security advisory to the users of its newest browser, Firefox 1.5 about this bug, which is related to how the software handles extremely long names. This bug can at worse reportedly crash the targeted computer. However, the organization has claimed that contrary to earlier reports by researchers, the bug does not expose users to attack.

The extremely long name in this case is 2.5 million characters. If the user clicks on a link containing an extremely long file name Firefox will appear to hang. Additionally Firefox will act sluggish until the history is cleared.

Clearing the history is the current “fix” as Mozilla has not released an update. Mozilla says this is not a security problem as it won’t expose the user to attack.

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