63450 - PSM Forkbombs my system when I view https pages,

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 34834

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[kislo]

I don't know what version of PSM I am running, but today is December 20th 2000,
and I *JUST* downloaded it from the "Install PSM" option under debug.
I also JUST nuked my mozilla insatllation and installed last night's nightly
build fresh off mozilla.org.

If you view an https page, say https://www.dcu.org
run this command in another window

ps -axe |grep psm | wc -l

it'll say something like 17,

Hit reload and run the command again.. The number of PSM processes running on
the computer goes up.

keep on hitting reload, it keeps going up.

Eventually you run out of processes and your computer is hosed.

Also, you'll notice after hitting reload a couple times, one PSM process will
get stuck cranking 100% of the cpu.  I last visited a secure web page a couple
minutes ago, and it's still cranking 100% of the cpu, and there's a couple
hundred PSM processes hanging around.  All contributing to a very slow computing
experience :)

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

Fixed in PSM 1.4, which should be built into Linux builds any day now. There is 
a binary version of psm 1.4 at
 ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/unix/linux22/xpi/psm.xpi


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34834 ***

Comment 2

[John Unruh]

Verified dupe.

Comment 3

[Aaron Brick]

sorry!