Re: [Full-disclosure] Update: [GSEC-TZO-44-2009] One bug to rule them all - Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Seamonkey, iPhone, iPod, Wii, PS3....

[Andrew Farmer <andfarm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 Jul 2009, at 08:12, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> There are literally thousands of HTML- and JavaScript-related denial
> of service vectors in modern browsers...

There's one significant difference in this one, though: while a bunch  
of nested <div>s (for instance) will just mess with the HTML renderer,  
a malformed or oversized <select> element may end up passing bad data  
to native menu APIs. It's one of the only elements I can think of  
offhand that often has effects which extend outside the HTML canvas.