New Firefox DoS

[Newby]

http://www.whitedust.net/speaks/1432/

Hahahaha. Wow. I wonder what causes it to explode over that..

[iago]

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. 

[Quik]

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.

[iago]

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. 

[Quik]

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.

[Joe]

from version 1.0.7 downward

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?

[MyndFyre]

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?

[Joe]

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?

[Ergot]

It doesn't affect the betas. And the current version is 1.4.x