Closed Bug 312844 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

hang if rendering malformed url

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 210658

People

(Reporter: wegmann, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686; en) Opera 8.0
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.7

the browser hangs when it tries to render the following html-code:

<html><body><strong>Mozilla<sourcetext></body></html>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put the above html-code in a file
2. load that file with the browser


Actual Results:  
The browser hangs using 100% CPU.
The browser has to be killed.

Expected Results:  
show the text "Mozilla" and/or show an error message.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210658 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Group: security
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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