full-disclosure - Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP

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Message-ID: <200407121519.25140.sec@kaschwig.net>
From: sec at kaschwig.net (Thomas Kaschwig)
Subject: Firefox 0.92 DoS  via TinyBMP

Hi,

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...

There is no such effect with Firefox 0.9.1 on Linux, the virtual memory 
for `fixefox-bin' goes only up to 76MB. It seems to be an Windows-only 
exploit.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 
Firefox/0.9.1

Thomas
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