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Re: Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP


From: Peter Ferrie <pferrie () symantec com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:29:49 -0700





Anyone have any clues as to why my machine seems vunerable to it?

Yes.  Look in the file and you'll see that it is a ~1Mb wide 24-bit
colour bitmap.  That's going to take a lot of memory when there are
several of them (as in that example).

8^) p.

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