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Offline Newby

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New Firefox DoS
« on: October 17, 2005, 09:25:29 am »
http://www.whitedust.net/speaks/1432/

Hahahaha. Wow. I wonder what causes it to explode over that..
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2005, 03:02:15 pm »
I think I can summarize my feelings about this in a single word:

"So?"

DoS's are boring, unless you can take down something critical. 

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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2005, 06:52:51 pm »
You can crash Firefox pretty easily many-a-way, this is unimportant. If you can obtain some of the code, and point out something it does that is worth a thought or two, this might actually be important.
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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2005, 07:01:24 pm »
Not really; the Mozilla team is usually pretty quick to fix crashes.  The main reason I worry about DoS is because you never know what it can lead to.  There have been lots of examples of a benign-looking DoS turning into an arbitrary code execution attack. 

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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2005, 08:41:05 pm »
Not really; the Mozilla team is usually pretty quick to fix crashes. The main reason I worry about DoS is because you never know what it can lead to. There have been lots of examples of a benign-looking DoS turning into an arbitrary code execution attack.

I have seen a few examples of how to crash the browser, most of the time accidentally, that are still available.

This is what I was saying before, unless he can point out something interesting in the code, pay no heed.
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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2005, 07:50:55 am »
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from version 1.0.7 downward
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will indeed need patching as soon as possible

Am I missing something, or does someone not share my opinion on why new software versions are released?
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2005, 07:40:44 pm »
Am I missing something, or does someone not share my opinion on why new software versions are released?
I'm sure someone does, Joe, but since you didn't tell us what your opinion is, how can we know for sure?
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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2005, 10:13:01 pm »
That seeing as how it affects only versions 1.0.7 and downward, and the current version is 1.5.0, its already patched. Hows that for ASAP?
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: New Firefox DoS
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2005, 11:16:48 pm »
It doesn't affect the betas. And the current version is 1.4.x
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