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 Mozilla Firefox Browser Hangs When Rendering Large Binary Files as HTML
Categorie: Vulnerability
Posted: 2004-10-27 by ReCall
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Description: Peter Kruse of Combined Services and Integrated Solutions (CSIS) reported a denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can cause the browser to consume all available resources.

It is reported the when attempting to render a large binary file as HTML, the browser will consume all available memory on the target system and hang. Files larger than 5 MB will trigger the flaw.

Impact: A remote user can cause the browser to consume all available resources and hang.

Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
 
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