Closed Bug 468826 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Basic auth DOS

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

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

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427741

People

(Reporter: TuXAPuK, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

For example page A contains :

<image src="http://image.b.lv/image1.png">
<image src="http://image.b.lv/image2.png">
<image src="http://image.b.lv/image3.png">
<image src="http://image.b.lv/image4.png">
...
...

Page B (http://image.b.lv) secured with authentication.

When you open page A you got much, much more dialogs with enter your name and password....


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Not a security bug that needs to remain hidden.
Group: core-security
Related to bug 348997?
Confirming bug. I don't see how this is a Distributed-DoS.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Basic auth DDOS → Basic auth DOS
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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