266155 - Firefox crashes after some time. possible Security hole

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc Bauer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Open the URL or the attached .dat

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. for e.g. open http://www.onlinekosten.de/news/artikel/15813
2. browser starts up Java Engine
3. Page is loading... and never ends loading
4. Browser crashes with memory error

Actual Results:  
Browser crashes completly

Expected Results:  
no crash *G*

Comment 1

[Marc Bauer]

i tryed different Java Engines for make sure this is not the problem.

here is the plugins dir listing Java 1.3.1_11:
24.02.2004  15:45               49.272 NPJava11.dll
24.02.2004  15:45               53.368 NPJava12.dll
24.02.2004  15:45               53.365 NPJava131_11.dll
24.02.2004  15:45               49.272 NPJava32.dll
13.09.2004  22:57               32.892 npnul32.dll
15.07.2003  06:56               13.888 NPOFFICE.DLL
24.02.2004  15:45               45.177 npoji600.dll

version 1.5.0:
08.10.2004  20:11               69.740 NPJava11.dll
08.10.2004  20:11               69.740 NPJava12.dll
08.10.2004  20:11               69.740 NPJava13.dll
24.02.2004  15:45               53.365 NPJava131_11.dll
08.10.2004  20:11               69.740 NPJava14.dll
08.10.2004  20:11               69.740 NPJava32.dll
08.10.2004  20:11               69.740 NPJPI150.dll
13.09.2004  22:57               32.892 npnul32.dll
15.07.2003  06:56               13.888 NPOFFICE.DLL
24.02.2004  15:45               45.177 npoji600.dll
08.10.2004  20:11               69.740 NPOJI610.dll

Comment 2

[Marc Bauer]

Attachment: Java Code for crashing Browser

with this file embedded to a webpage you can crash the Browser

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Why do you say this is a possible security hole?

Comment 4

[Marc Bauer]

not sure, but possible to use this way for smuggling worms or attacks to the 
machine. first time i seen a memory fault in firefox...

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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