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RE: Fire fox dos exploit

From: Sanjay Rawat <sanjayr () intoto com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:19:20 +0530

I have seen that the exploit also freezes Eudora 6.2.1.2. I was trying toopen the original mail in Eudora mail client and whenever I clicked on thethe mail , Eudora stopped responding anymore. I had to restart the application.


regards
-Sanjay Rawat

At 09:52 PM 5/31/2006, Andy wrote:

Crashed my FF 1.5.0.3 straight away on a fully patched XP Pro Service Pack 2

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Zlatin-Amishav [mailto:josh () tkos co il]
Sent: 31 May 2006 16:50
To: co296 () aol com
Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Fire fox dos exploit

On Tue, 30 May 2006, co296 () aol com wrote:

> I have found a problem which causes denial of service on fire fox browser

Can you give us some more details, like versions and platforms affected? I
was unable to
recreate this flaw using firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0 on Debian unstable.

--
  - Josh

>
> Creadit:to n00b for finding this bug..
>
> the problem lie's in the
>
> <marquee> html tag uses 100% cpu and crash's the browser..
>
> Following proof of concept available
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Credit to n00b..</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
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>
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> </html>
>
>

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Re: Fire fox dos exploit pagvac (Jun 04)
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- Re: Fire fox dos exploit Phil Trainor (Jun 04)
- Re: Fire fox dos exploit Ronald van den Blink (Jun 04)
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