Closed Bug 281968 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Firefox crashes upon simple javascript array code; a stupid bufferoverflow

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(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
critical

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 271716

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(Reporter: GOD, Assigned: bugzilla)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0 When opening a html-file with the following content: <HTML> <SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT> </HTML> Firefox (and most other browsers) crashes. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: not use javascript! ;) no messages popup warning me, firefox just crashes.
I see a crash with FF1.09 but not with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de-DE; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050210 Mozilla is slow and the throbber never stops but no crash.
TB3647456X That's for Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271716 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
*** Bug 284073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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