255625 - crash overflow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197956

(Core :: XML, enhancement)

Description

[daneel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8

a 240 kb xml file 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- XML generated by UserLand Frontier v9.0 on 8/4/2004; 3:17:04 PM Eastern -->
<weblogUpdates version="1" updated="Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:17:04 GMT" count="1150168">
	<weblog name="Hersheys kiss cookie"
url="http://www.nummet.com/hersheys-kiss-cookie" when="0"/>
	<weblog name="Professional-Lurker: Comments by an academic in cyberspace"
url="http://www.professional-lurker.com/" when="2"/>
	<weblog name="mimilou" url="http://mimilou.hands-down.net/journal/" when="6"/>
...
...

</weblogUpdates>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.make above xml file bloat to 257 KB
2.open in windows xp on fire fox
3.hangs can only close latest version of firefoz



Expected Results:  
render xml like IE though ie takes a few seconds not hang,shows that xml parser
has less threads on windows you need to get more threads to process long xml files
can cause crash in remote attack cases

Comment 1

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97956 ***

Comment 2

[Jesper Hertel]

I can't see why this bug can be a duplicate of Bug 97956 - "Give summary/URL of
bugs added or removed from dependencies"?

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Sorry, typo. Reopening to dupe properly.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197956 ***