Crashing X

[scott <smackenz () sdf lonestar org>]

I have discovered a little bug in K Desktop 2.1.2 that crashes your X Server.

By using the konqueror web browser and inputting around 9000+ A's (or 
whatever) into a search box (for instance www.yahoo.com's web search box) - 
this will crash your X environment.

I have successfully done it using 9000 A's on one search box (crashing X 
instantly),  then I used 90'000 and it also worked - but without immediate 
effect (took a few seconds).

It also sometimes seems to work by just pasting 900000 A's into a search box 
and before it even displays the A's X crashes.  (note: If you want it to 
display the A's before X crashes paste 9000, then as soon as you click to 
start the search - its bye bye X).

Sorry but I can only test it on KDE 2.1.2, because I have no other systems 
available right now.

By the way:

[smackenz@mainframe smackenz]$ uname -a  
Linux mainframe 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
(Rehat 7.1)
(KDE 2.1.2)
(this works in Gnome and KDE using with the konqueror web browser)

To test simply use a shell and type:

perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'

Then copy these, and paste them into a search form.

Also I tried this in netscape and it didn't work so it suggests its a 
konqueror error somewhere or other.

Cheers

Scott Mackenzie