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Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () coredump cx>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:21:23 +0100
But what if www.evil.com has run an injection attack of some kind (SQL, XSS in blog comments, etc, etc) against www.stupid.com? Visitors to stupid.com then suffer a DoS...
In such a case, the attacker may just as well clobber body.innerHTML, run a while (1) loop, or otherwise logically deny or alter service to visitors without actually exploiting any specific bug - so I do not see any significant benefit to killing this particular tab. Crashing / hanging the entire browser is somewhat different, as it bears some risk of data loss in plausible usage scenarios. Unfortunately, most implementations do very little to prevent cases that were permitted by standards in the first place (things such as "while (1) str += str", "while (1) alert('foo')", looped blocking XMLHttpRequest calls, ridiculously nested XML and other expensive-to-render content, etc) - which makes finding new instances somewhat futile and pointless, and a result, somewhat frowned upon on security mailing lists (ugh). /mz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Chris Evans (Mar 02)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Nick FitzGerald (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Michal Zalewski (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Nick FitzGerald (Mar 02)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Michal Zalewski (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Nick FitzGerald (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Chris Evans (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Nick FitzGerald (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Stuart Dunkeld (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Chris Evans (Mar 03)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Chris Evans (Mar 02)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Pavel Kankovsky (Mar 04)
- Re: Apple Safari ... DoS Vulnerability Nick FitzGerald (Mar 02)