Closed Bug 297695 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

too large width/height attributes causes system crash

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 289864

People

(Reporter: df, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

an image with attributes <IMG SRC="..." width="9999999" height="9999999"> causes
system crashes (bluescreen) on win systems.

the HTML and NOT the image itself causes the crash. seems to happen on all
windows systems.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. SAFE YOUR WORK!!!!! :)
2. open http://www.noop.ch/lol.html

Actual Results:  
the OS completely crashes (bluescreen)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 289864 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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