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Re: [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso () sdf lonestar org>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:29:53 +0200
Thierry Zoller <Thierry () Zoller lu> wrote:
A memory leak in an interactive program that requires you to view a hostile page for 9hours is clearly of negligible security impact.Ok I will take the strawman :
Your random application of meaning to terminology is at least entertaining.
Only a few bytes of "k" leads to the compromises of the private key. (DSA). Does this matter, not really. It's your key anyways. Does something "leak" to somewhere were it's not supposed to be, no. Memory is just not correctly freed.
Ah-ha, I see you have consulted some documentation and the correct meaning of the term is now becoming clear to you.
Yep, I am an ignorant idiot, can we move on now ? If *you* can't imagine a setup or extreme border case where (as example) entropy that is being collected is indirectly affected, be it in quality of entropy or size, then clearly *I* must be the idiot that doesn't understand the concept of memory allocations.
I am aware of your attempt at sarcasm, and yet this sentence is completely accurate. I cannot imagine any situation where this is the case, because the two concepts are orthogonal.
General comment: I am interesting to see the kind of feedback I get when posting an Firefox bug as opposed to bugs of other vendors. It's almost like you hit a little boy and everybody steps into for his defence.
Your complaint that mozilla developers need to drop what they're doing and investigate your trivial issues was too much to bare. Thanks, Tavis. -- ------------------------------------- taviso () sdf lonestar org | finger me for my pgp key. ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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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- [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen) Thierry Zoller (May 27)
- Re: [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen) Jeremy Brown (May 27)
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- Re: [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen) Tavis Ormandy (May 28)
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- Re: [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen) Nico Golde (May 28)
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