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Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC
From: "Bruno Lustosa" <bruno.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:21:08 -0300
On 21 Jun 2006 03:39:09 -0000, N9 () critical lt <N9 () critical lt> wrote:
Details: Vulnerability can be exploited by using a large value in a href tag to create an out-of-bounds memory access. Proof Of Concept DoS exploit: http://www.critical.lt/research/opera_die_happy.html
Interesting enough, clicking on that link under Firefox 1.5.0.4 made it hang for about 20 seconds, consuming 100% cpu time. Probably not a vulnerability, although it could be "exploited" to annoy users. -- Bruno Lustosa <bruno () lustosa net> http://www.lustosa.net/
Current thread:
- Opera 9 DoS PoC N9 (Jun 21)
- Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC Bruno Lustosa (Jun 23)
- Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC Bastian Ahrens (Jun 26)
- Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC Eric Furman (Jun 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC Darren Clarke (Jun 23)
- Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC Laurent (Jun 26)
- Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC Bruno Lustosa (Jun 23)