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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP
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- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP
- From: Peter Ferrie <pferrie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:29:49 -0700
>Anyone have any clues as to why my machine seems vunerable to it?
Yes. Look in the file and you'll see that it is a ~1Mb wide 24-bit
colour bitmap. That's going to take a lot of memory when there are
several of them (as in that example).
8^) p.
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