188740 - Bad html code crashes Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Zenon Panoussis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030107
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030107

Clicking on the "Download:
http://www.courier-mta.org/beta/courier/courier-0.40.2.20030108.tar.bz2" link in
the URL above crashes Mozilla every time. top shows it running away until it has
consumed all available memory, and then it's gone. 

The source code around that link looks currently like this:

===========
<blockquote>
  <table border=0 cellpadding=4><tr><th align=right>Version:</th><td>0.40.2
(30-Dec-2002) </td> </tr>
<tr><th align=right>Filename:</th><td><code>courier-0.40.2.tar.bz2</code>
(3.1Mb)</td> </tr>

<tr><th align=right>Download:</th><td><a
href='http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/courier/courier-0.40.2.tar.bz2'>HTTP</a>
</td> </tr> </table>

<table bgcolor='#000000' cellpadding=1 border=0><tr><td>
<table bgcolor='#ffffff' cellpadding=16 border=0><tr><td>
<font color='#D00000'>NEW: Download the latest development snapshot
(08-Jan-2003):</font><br>
<table border=0 cellpadding=4><tr><th
align=right>Filename:</th><td><code>courier-0.40.2.20030108.tar.bz2</code>
(3.1Mb)</td> </tr>

<tr><th align=right>Download:</th><td><a
href='http://www.courier-mta.org/beta/courier/courier-0.40.2.20030108.tar.bz2'><code>http://www.courier-mta.org/beta/courier/courier-0.40.2.20030108.tar.bz2</code></a>
</td> </tr>
<tr><th align=right>&nbsp;</th><td><font size='-2'>(<a
href='http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/courier/courier/courier/ChangeLog?content-type=text/plain&rev=courier-latest'
target='_new'>changelog</a>)</font> </td> </tr></table>
</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr>
</table>

</blockquote>
===========

It is not obvious to me what is wrong here. My guess is the single quotes, but
it could be something else. Whatever it is,Mozilla shouldn't crash on it. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to thepage
2. Click on the link
3. Wait a few seconds until all your memory is filled
4. Crash

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme, linux trunk build 2003-01-10-08.  I click the link and get a helper
app dialog....

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with a 5min old win2k trunk build.

Comment 3

[Kenneth Herron]

Works for me, build id 20030209 on solaris 8/sparc.

Zenon, are you still experiencing this? Perhaps the web site was just sending
the wrong mime type or something.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm