full-disclosure - Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP

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Message-ID: <42498.198.162.158.16.1089738918.squirrel@198.162.158.16>
From: eric at arcticbears.com (Eric Paynter)
Subject: Firefox 0.92 DoS  via TinyBMP

On Mon, July 12, 2004 9:25 pm, Sapheriel said:
> what baffles me is how easily this problem could be countered. a simple
> check of bfsize versus filesize(-header and such) would suffice.

Most vulnerabilities can be countered with something very simple like a
size check, yet developers don't do it. :\

-Eric