full-disclosure - Re: Firefox 2.0.0.7 has a very serious calculation bug

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Message-ID: <46FD36EB.7060208@bclary.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:16:27 -0400
From: Bob Clary <bob@...ary.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0.0.7 has a very serious
 calculation bug

carl hardwick wrote:
> There's a flaw in Firefox 2.0.0.7 allows javascript to execute wrong
> subtractions.
> 
> PoC concept here:
> javascript:5.2-0.1
> (copy this code into address bar)
> 
> Firefox 2.0.0.7 result: 5.1000000000000005 (WRONG!)
> Internet Explorer 7 result: 5.1 (OK)
> 

Please read <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5856>.

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