full-disclosure - Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP

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Message-ID: <40F2800A.7030005@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
From: hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com (William Warren)
Subject: Firefox 0.92 DoS  via TinyBMP

this made my mozilla 1.71 run slow and spiked my ram usage above 
100 megs for a seconds..but no increase in paging file 
usage..when i shutdown the tab with that link mozie worked fine.

thE_iNviNciblE wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> credits to: StupidWhiteMan
> 

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