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Re: Apple Mac OS X Safari 2.0.3 Vulnerability


From: Aaron Phillips <Aaron () systech-computers com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:15:46 -0700

Konqueror 2.3.1 and Firefox 2.0a1 don't appear to be vulnerable. Be nice to 
hear about Opera and IE.

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 07:41, jens () mac com wrote:
All this does is cause Safari to allocate oodles of memory. It won't crash
or hang the OS, just cause it to slow down due to VM paging. Wait a bit and
the force-quit alert will appear (and/or Safari will crash when it runs out
of address space.) Seems more of an annoyance than an actual security
problem.

How do Firefox, IE and Opera respond?

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