Closed Bug 468826 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 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: 1. 2. 3.
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: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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