The company pays out prizes to security researchers (or kids) who disclose vulnerabilities.
Miller says he became motivated to find a security hole in the browser after Mozilla bumped up its prize from $500 to $3000 earlier this year.
The 12-year old says he spent 90 minutes a day, for 10 days straight, until he found the critical flaw.
His 15-hour crusade netted him $3000.
TechSpot says the "flaw can be exploited to crash a victim's browser and potentially run arbitrary code on their computer."
Mozilla patched the exploit with the release of Firefox 3.6.11.
Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 26 Oct 2010 0:34
