288849 - strange hang if FTP dir listing gives invalid month

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[morcollo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When receiving the results of a LIST request from an FTP server, Firefox hangs
strangely (requiring termination through the task manager even after the window
is closed) if the month part of the /bin/ls formatted file listing (-rw-r--r-- 1
owner group           213 Aug 26 16:31 README) is not a valid month (such as Ten
rather than Jan, Feb, Mar, etc.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have an FTP server which gives an invalid month in LISTing (I was writing an
FTP server)
2. Connect to it with Firefox

Actual Results:  
Firefox died

Expected Results:  
Coped with an invalid month instead of dying

I don't know if this should be labelled "Critical" but it does cause Firefox to
crash - albeit it's improbable that an FTP server would be handing out invalid
months

Comment 1

[Gabriel Chadwick]

Could some give an adress to confirm this issue ?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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