298641 - Loading of image that is 99999999x99999999 crashes browser, and pc (blue screen of death)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 289864

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ph3rny]

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

Upon entering the page the browser attempts to render an image that is 999999 by
999999 pixels.  This causes the computer to run out of memory and return the
blue screen of death.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to crashmypc.com
Actual Results:  
Computer Crashed... Memory overloaded... Blue screen of death...

Expected Results:  
It should have forced images larger than double the users screen size to be
rendered as a size that the computer could handle.

Memory Overload

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

You don't run out of memory, it's a video driver problem.

Not much point in the confidential flag for something posted on crashmypc.com --
the bad guys already know.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 289864 ***