Closed
Bug 417233
Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
If you enter a really long address in the address bar, Firefox takes 100% of CPU and up to 800MB of RAM
Categories
(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 379390
People
(Reporter: julien, Unassigned)
References
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Details
(Keywords: hang, memory-footprint, perf)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 When you enter a really long address in the address bar, FF takes a lot of memory and CPU. I've not investigate, but this bug could be exploit to execute arbitrary code. I've reproduce this bug on Windows XP and Mac OS Tiger. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter a long URL (as long as possible) 2. Validate Otherwise browse to : http://bad-request.com/files/bugs/firefox.html Actual Results: Firefox process takes 100% of CPU and takes a lot of memory (always growing). Expected Results: FF should not allow that kind of long URL. I'm not using any theme or special extension.
Updated•16 years ago
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Comment 1•16 years ago
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If you turn off the anti-phishing detection it's not too bad.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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