Re: Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP

[William Warren <hescominsoon () emmanuelcomputerconsulting com>]

this made my mozilla 1.71 run slow and spiked my ram usage above 
100 megs for a seconds..but no increase in paging file 
usage..when i shutdown the tab with that link mozie worked fine.

thE_iNviNciblE wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there is a security vulnerability in Firebox 0.92 (latest Version)
>
> http://www.4rman.com/exploits/tinybmp.htm
>
> this link causes that your virutal memory will be rise up 1,2 GB used 
> Memory...
>
> maybe Thunderbird 0.72 is also vulnerable via HTML.
>
> credits to: StupidWhiteMan

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