273869 - Firefox is fetching pages in infinite loop on possibly malicious website

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Oliver White]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Closing a window to a particular website causes firefox to crash

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Visit the site listed above
Click no to "trust this certificate" warning from java
Page appears with a "firefox has prevented this site from installing software" 
warning
Click one of the "product" links, will open in a new window
Close that popup window


Actual Results:  
"Firefox.exe application error
the instruction at 0x006cfc4a referenced memory at 0x00000000a4, the memory 
couldn't be read"


Expected Results:  
Should have closed the window without a crash

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

Also wfm with a current nightly Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041209 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

Oliver White: Could you reproduce this crash and provide Talkback incident ID?

Comment 4

[Oliver White]

I'm using firefox 1.0.1 now, and that site just causes an (apparently) infinite
loop of continuously fetching pages but never displaying them.  (that's with
Java off)

Comment 5

[Oliver White]

Same with java ON. Continuously trying to load/refresh a blank green page

Comment 6

[Adam Hauner]

So your Firefox doesn't crash with this site anymore?

Comment 7

[Oliver White]

Firefox doesn't crash with this site anymore

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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