163588 - buffer overflow in Chatzilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94448

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[trevor]

On Bugtraq, Thor Larholm <[e-mail]> reported:

 The IRC:// protocol inhibited by Mozilla/NS6 seems to have a buffer overrun.
 A typical IRC URL could look like this:

 IRC://IRC.YOUR.TLD/#YOURCHANNEL

 The #YOURCHANNEL part is copied to a buffer that has a limit of 32K.
 If the input exceeds this limit, Mozilla 1.0 RC1 crashes with the following
 error:

 The exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occured in the
 application at location 0x60e42edf

At http://jscript.dk/2002/4/moz1rc1tests/ircbufferoverrun.html he has provided a
Web page which demonstrates the bug.  It does not always work for me, but I
wrote a demonstration page according to his instructions which gives more
consistent results:  http://jpj.net/~trevor/chatzilla.html .

Not installing the Chatzilla component is an effective workaround, as is
removing the chatzilla.jar archive after installation.

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

This is not a buffer overrun, but a blown stack performing a regexp match
against a very large string.  Not exploitable.

There is a dupe of this out there, possible left open to remind me to not match
against large strings, or possibly marked INVALID, I forget.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94448 ***