256858 - firefox take 100MB ram with large animated gif

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 178809

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marco Berizzi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Viewing this animated gif, Firefox 0.9.3 and Mozilla 1.7.2, on both windows
and Linux, take a 100 MB ram.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open firefox or mozilla
http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/code-red/newframes-small-log.gif
2. top or windoze task manager
3. take a look at mem column



Expected Results:  
Konqueror and Internet Explorer take about 30 MB

I don't know if this is a bug or normal behaviour. Also I don't know
if this behaviour could be used for a DOS.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 256859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Using lots of memory is not a security hole.  At worst, it's a client DoS, and
there are plenty of other ways to do that.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178809 ***