bugtraq - Re: Apple Mac OS X Safari 2.0.3 Vulnerability

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:15:46 -0700
From: Aaron Phillips <Aaron@...tech-computers.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Apple Mac OS X Safari 2.0.3 Vulnerability

Konqueror 2.3.1 and Firefox 2.0a1 don't appear to be vulnerable. Be nice to 
hear about Opera and IE.

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 07:41, jens@....com wrote:
> All this does is cause Safari to allocate oodles of memory. It won't crash
> or hang the OS, just cause it to slow down due to VM paging. Wait a bit and
> the force-quit alert will appear (and/or Safari will crash when it runs out
> of address space.) Seems more of an annoyance than an actual security
> problem.
>
> How do Firefox, IE and Opera respond?

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