361755 - crash if streaming video (via Java applets) and refreshing the site

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Damian Mamys]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.02 (Windows NT 5.1; U; pl)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Ehlo
I found that streaming video (via Java applets) and refreshing the site
causes crash of Firefox browser! (Operating system Windows XP).

Bug that demonstrates the vulnerability: http://wajrus.com/firefox2_vs_java_streaming.html 
(enter only if you are 18 years old, and more).

If you are under legal age or it is illegal to view extremely adult material, 
please do not enter this url.

It can be used as a DoS attack, etc. For example while someone will sent preparated url to users of some server when they are entering important data.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

If you could install talkback and submit the crash data to us that would help a lot.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Once you have a talkback incident ID you can put it in this bug as "TBxxxxxxxx". Put your email in also in case you can't find the ID, Mozilla Corporation employees can search on that term (but it's not public, so the talkback ID is more useful)

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Since refreshing the page is mentioned I wonder if this is the same issue as bug 347662 or similar?

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

It could be, but I don't think so, the Java plugin in Firefox has its own set of crash issues.

Comment 4

[Damian Mamys]

So it was an critical bug ? It's fixed anyway :)

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Since we didn't "fix" anything this is at best "worksforme". Could easily be something different in the served content meaning the bug is still there but there's now no way to track it down.