full-disclosure - Re: Mozilla Firefox 3.6 plenitude String Crash(0day) Exploit

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:49:32 +1100
From: Jeff Williams <jeffwillis30@...il.com>
To: information security <informationhacker08@...il.com>,
	full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Mozilla Firefox 3.6 plenitude String
	Crash(0day) Exploit

Sure;

Mozilla by default recover any "lost" tabs by itself, then no worry for your
"users" considerations.

Now sparky, who will be stupid enough to launch a botnet that sets a web
page containing a document.write "A" * 2000000000000000000 on them
compromised hosts ?

You tell me.



2010/3/3 information security <informationhacker08@...il.com>

> Thanks Valdis .Jeff for all your comment
> yes my small-penis machine running out of RAM and swap space ...: ......
> :)and i believe that Mozilla get crash ...........:(
> can you tell me how to fix that people don't become victim from this
> attack  people with having 34 bit Computer
> or people having small -penis machine change into big-penis machine :)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:37 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:02:37 PST, information security said:
>>
>> > open in Mozilla Firefox and wait for 15 sec ...... :) and say Good Bye
>>
>> Sorry, your exploit doesn't do squat on a 64-bit Firefox 3.7a3 with plenty
>> of
>> RAM. It chugs for about 7-8 seconds and displays a *very* wide page.  It
>> must
>> be your small-penis machine running out of RAM and swap space. :)
>>
>> Hint - this issue was well understood back in 1964. Literally. IBM's
>> OS/360 had
>> a GETMAIN macro that allocated storage that could encounter this same
>> basic
>> "out of memory" issue.  So not only is this a non-bug that was known when
>> you
>> were still being toilet-trained, this may be the first recorded case of
>> somebody reporting a non-bug that was known when their *parents* were
>> still
>> being toilet-trained.
>>
>>
>

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