Re: Firefox 0.92 DoS via TinyBMP

[Maarten <fulldisc () ultratux org>]

On Monday 12 July 2004 20:52, st3ng4h wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:14:02PM +0200, David Huecking wrote:
> > Hmm, very funny modified BMPs?!
>
> [snip]
>
> > So we see the true nature of this picture.
>
> This is precisely the point that almost everyone is missing
> completely (but still clamoring "it works on X, it doesn't work on
> Y"), and that Sapheriel pinpointed: the core problem lies in the
> Windows .bmp implementation.

Well, _if_ it does.  What is actually happening is that you load a graphic 
with a massive resolution.  Linking to a page with a 4400 MB jpeg isn't 
exactly what I'd call a DoS, but the effect sure looks like it though ;-)

However...  maybe I was jumping to conclusions too quick...
Since, for the record, Mozilla on linux doesn't suffer anything.
Or so it seems.

Maarten

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