full-disclosure - Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP

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From: pferrie at symantec.com (Peter Ferrie)
Subject: Firefox 0.92 DoS  via TinyBMP

>Anyone have any clues as to why my machine seems vunerable to it?

Yes.  Look in the file and you'll see that it is a ~1Mb wide 24-bit
colour bitmap.  That's going to take a lot of memory when there are
several of them (as in that example).

8^) p.