full-disclosure - Re: FIREFOX flaws: nested array sort() loop Stack overflow exception

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Message-ID: <200411251340.56176.dr@kyx.net>
From: dr at kyx.net (Dragos Ruiu)
Subject: Re: FIREFOX flaws: nested array sort() loop Stack overflow exception

On November 25, 2004 07:51 am, Gadi Evron wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So instead you unleash it upon kiddie and spammer world? That's lovely.

> Some people are advocates of this or that disclosure mechanism, and
> believe they are right. I can bite.
> You just say: "I'm so cool. I will release this, get a ton of attention
> and then say 'hey! They violated GPL! How dare they?!'"

He didn't have to release it... he could have sold it or any number of 
other things including just exploiting it quietly.  We should stop 
shooting the messenger and say thanks to people who do other's 
debugging for free and for all our own good.

my 2c,
--dr

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