bugtraq - Re: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12 Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Message-ID: <AANLkTinTAqbz9cD8Xs8BveOxGOREuSg6PYLeSJkuuUVf@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:17:24 -0800
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
To: info@...ya.info
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12 Denial of Service Vulnerability

> <body onload="location='';alert('DoS');">

Welcome to the world of browsers. You could just as easily do
"while(1) alert(1)". See:

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Defenses_against_disruptive_scripts

/mz