bugtraq - RE: Fire fox dos exploit

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:22:25 +0200
From: "Andy" <andy@....uk.com>
To: "'Josh Zlatin-Amishav'" <josh@...s.co.il>, <co296@....com>
Cc: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: Fire fox dos exploit


Crashed my FF 1.5.0.3 straight away on a fully patched XP Pro Service Pack 2

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Zlatin-Amishav [mailto:josh@...s.co.il] 
Sent: 31 May 2006 16:50
To: co296@....com
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Fire fox dos exploit

On Tue, 30 May 2006, co296@....com wrote:

> I have found a problem which causes denial of service on fire fox browser

Can you give us some more details, like versions and platforms affected? I
was unable to 
recreate this flaw using firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0 on Debian unstable.

--
  - Josh

>
> Creadit:to n00b for finding this bug..
>
> the problem lie's in the
>
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>
> Following proof of concept available
>
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