full-disclosure - Re: Firefox 1.5.0.7 Exploit

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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:35:58 +0100
From: "Tyop?" <tyoptyop@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Firefox 1.5.0.7 Exploit

On 11/2/06, Bram Dumolin <bdumolin@...il.com> wrote:
> re,
> On 2 Nov 2006 16:43:35 -0000, koenig@...-k-a-d-e-n-t.de
> <koenig@...-k-a-d-e-n-t.de> wrote:
>
> > Do 2 Nov 16:35:53 CET 2006
> >
> > Vulnerable: Firefox 1.5.0.7 and probably versions below
> >
> > Impact: DoS (perhaps Code Execution)
> >
> >
> > As Firefox 2.0 was released a few days ago...
> > A "new" Exploit for the old version!
> > The great Firefox! ;D
> >
> > On Kubuntu Linux the exploits does not just kill firefox
> > but freezes the whole system! Probably it will also freeze
> > other distros!
> >
> > If the URL is bigger than 4092 bytes, Firefox crashes!
> > The URL in the following code is 4093 bytes!
>
> No problem on Mac OS X 10.4.8 with firefox 1.5.0.7.

firefox 1.5.0.7 on FreeBSD 7.0(september) and on Linux debian 2.6.17-2-686,
Not affected.

-- 
Tyop?

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