Closed Bug 508749 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Denial of service with document.write loop

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

3.0 Branch
x86_64
Linux
defect
Not set
critical

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()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 380223

People

(Reporter: patilkr, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: testcase)

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(1 file)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.13 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.13 following code hangs the Firefox browser var xyz=''; for(var i=0;i<32000 i++) document.write(xyz+= String.fromCharCode(i)); The above code is posted on a site ("http://ha.ckers.org/") on 27 July 2009 post. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start Firefox 2. run above script 3. Actual Results: Firefox hangs Expected Results: It should show the pop to terminate the JavaScript when it becomes unresponsive.
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
Attached file testcase (deleted) —
probably a dupe but I can't find it at the moment.
Group: core-security
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Keywords: testcase
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Denial of service → Denial of service with document.write loop
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