240524 - Bitmap Memory Allocation Error Lets Remote Users Cause All Available Memory to Be Consumed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 240369

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[James Peterson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414

I tried the "new" denial of service bug that was claimed at

http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Apr/1009746.html

Microsoft Internet Explorer Bitmap Memory Allocation Error Lets Remote Users
Cause All Available Memory to Be Consumed 

Tried the above IE DOS vulnerability on a mid march daily of Mozilla 1.7 and all
available memory was consumed instantly and the swap file was growing at the
maximum allowable rate.

Tried the same test url on todays 04/14/04 daily and about 190MB was used
instantly and the swap file began growing,
the browser appears to still operate to some degree, as I could close it.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Prepare to end task on Mozilla
2.  Load that website noted above.
3.  Watch memory be consumed using whatever tool you like, I used Task Manager.

Actual Results:  
On the mid march daily, all memory was consumed instantly and the swap file
was growing at the maximum allowable rate.

On today's daily, about 190MB was used instantly and the swap file began growing,
the browser appears to still operate to some degree, as I could close it.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

not a security issue, just mozilla using much memory

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240369 ***

Comment 2

[Alex Hirzel]

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