full-disclosure - Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP

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Message-ID: <40F2A280.6070003@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
From: hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com (William Warren)
Subject: Firefox 0.92 DoS  via TinyBMP

ie 6 sp1 fully patched win 2k sp4 ie6 causes a 1 gig jump in 
VM..not sure why mozilla does not exhibit this behavior


st3ng4h wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:23:39PM +0200, thE_iNviNciblE wrote:
> 
>>there is a security vulnerability in Firebox 0.92 (latest Version)
>>
>>http://www.4rman.com/exploits/tinybmp.htm
>>
>>this link causes that your virutal memory will be rise up 1,2 GB used 
>>Memory...
>>
>>maybe Thunderbird 0.72 is also vulnerable via HTML.
> 
> 
> Are you certain this is a vuln in Firefox?
> 
> On W2K SP4 fully patched: I can verify that opening that page in 
> Firefox 0.9.2 causes VM to balloon.
> 
> However, I get almost identical results opening the same page in IE 
> 6sp1, and can cause excessive VM consumption by opening little.bmp 
> referenced in your page in MS Paint.
> 
> st3ng4h
> 
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