Closed
Bug 251701
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
crash closing browser window with a very long title (win2k)
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
EXPIRED
People
(Reporter: damage-list, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: crash, Whiteboard: [sg:dos?])
Attachments
(2 files)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 After opening the first attached test page and closing the browser window, Mozilla crashes. The interesting thing is, that neither Talkback nor Windows 2000 seem to notice the crash. All Mozilla windows are closed and quickstart is no longer active (the Mozilla quickstart icon disappears after hovering over it with the mouse) . Opening the second attached file and closing the window with this file opened, the browser doesn't crash. The first attached page's title has a length of 278 characters, the second attached page's title length is 277 characters. These seem to be the magic numbers. The smallest number of characters I could reproduce the crash with was 278 characters. Now comes the odd part: After opening the second page and closing it, then opening the first page again and closing that, nothing crashes. Even completely exitting Mozilla and quickstart doesn't change the odd behaviour that now closing the first page also doesn't crash Mozilla anymore. Only after a complete restart of the PC, closing the first page crashes Mozilla again. Perhaps it's a bug in Win2k. I could reproduce this behaviour on a second Win2k machine, so it's not a problem with one installation. Haven't tried it yet on Linux or WinXP. Sorry if it is not a security related bug, but I wasn't sure whether this could be a buffer overflow, so I marked it as security related. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open first attached page 2.close window Actual Results: Mozilla crashes without any messages Expected Results: No crash
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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Comment 2•20 years ago
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To test, you should have more than one browser window open when you close the window with the long title to be able to detect the crash, right? Anyway, I can't reproduce this on WinXP using Mozilla 1.7.1 or Firefox 0.9.2.
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Comment 4•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #3) > To test, you should have more than one browser window open when you close the > window with the long title to be able to detect the crash, right? Yes, you need at least two browser windows open to detect the crash. When you close the window with the long title, all other browser windows will be gone, too. > Anyway, I can't reproduce this on WinXP using Mozilla 1.7.1 or Firefox 0.9.2. I now tried it on a WinXP machine, too. It did not crash on WinXP. Seems to be a Win2000 only problem.
Comment 5•20 years ago
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On Winxp I tried a title with 22K chars with no problem. If win2k is a problem we should try Win9x/ME as well. Clearing sensitive flag so this can get more eyes. If it's an issue it would presumably affect IE as well. We don't normally keep simple crashes secret unless there's evidence of exploitability
Group: security
Keywords: crash
Summary: crash if I close a browser window with a very long title → crash closing browser window with a very long title (win2k)
Whiteboard: [sg:dos?]
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Comment 6•19 years ago
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This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01". This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code. While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug (given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more reproduction information if you have it. If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved. Thank you for your help in this matter. The latest beta releases can be obtained from: Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html Seamonkey: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Comment 7•19 years ago
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This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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