full-disclosure - Re: Firefox 2.0.0.3 Out-of-bounds memory access via specialy crafted html file

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Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 08:08:16 -0500
From: "Robert Wesley McGrew" <wesley@...rewsecurity.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0.0.3 Out-of-bounds memory access
	via specialy crafted html file

On 5/1/07, carl hardwick <hardwick.carl@...il.com> wrote:
> Product: Firefox 2.0.0.3
> Description: Out-of-bounds memory access via specialy crafted html file
> Type: Remote
>
> Vulnerability can be exploited by using a large value in a href tag to
> create an out-of-bounds memory access.
>
> Proof Of Concept exploit:
> http://www.critical.lt/research/opera_die_happy.html

This doesn't work in Firefox 2.0.0.3 in Ubuntu 7.04.  This sounds like
it might be another case of mistaken identity with the heap overflow
vulnerability in Nvidia blob drivers for Linux, as this was one way to
exploit it.

-- 
Robert Wesley McGrew
http://mcgrewsecurity.com

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