Firefox crashes a lot

[KevinO]

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Scott wrote:
> There is a known exploit available that will crash Firefox 1.5. 
It appears to be a bug, and not an exploit. It made my browser hang, but not
close completely.

Packetstorm calls it a DOS proof of concept, which is a completely different
animal than an exploit.

> I have
> tested it on several of my own systems.  I found it up on
> packetstormsecurity.org the other day, and here is the link:
> 
> http://packetstormsecurity.org/0606-exploits/moz1504.txt
> 
> So probably there are people embedding this into their sites either on
> purpose or through plain coding coincidence.
> 
I doubt it. This one really isn't worth the bother. There are too many other ways
to intentionally hang a web browser, and nothing to be gained unless you could
inject some shell code with it.

Let me know when you find it "out in the wild."

Cheers,
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KevinO
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