full-disclosure - Re: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera

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Message-ID: <CAEcxYFk+nMAkCRCcC6kmhDSdM6PzXKO-B2T0nxcuxJXPy+Jh_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 21:59:43 +0530
From: Memory Vandal <memvandal@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox,
 Internet Explorer and Opera

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:46 PM, MustLive <mustlive@...security.com.ua>wrote:

>  > Anybody want to guess how many cores are on his test box? :)
>
> It's too simple puzzle :-). The most interesting in these results it's
> crashes and freezes.
>
> Of course I know about this dependence of CPU consuming from the number of
> CPU cores (just after I've upgraded first time from 1 core to 2 cores CPU
> in
> March 2009). During this testing I've checked this exploit (in Firefox) on
> one notebook - the only computer with single core CPU at my home - and
> results was 88% CPU consumption.
>

Anyone want to bet that he doesn't understand threading? ;)

MemoryVandal

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