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Re: Buffer Overflow with all versions of Internet Explorer and Javacript.
From: Jacek Lach <jlach () utopia pl eu org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:31:02 +0000

On Sunday 02 June 2002 23:47, Scott Mackenzie wrote:
After a few minutes testing it seems this does not only effect Internet
Explorer but also the following browsers:


In KDE's konqueror Latest Version it Seg Faults the browser instantly
a bit OT, but anyway, I also checked this and
Konqeror 3.0.0 hogs the CPU, but there was no segfault, the same effect (100% 
CPU utilization) is done by simply this:
<html><head></head>
<script language="JAVASCRIPT">
function foo() {
foo();
}
</script>
<input type="button" onClick="foo();" value="SMASH!"></input>
</html>

This situation is handled by both IE and Mozilla 1.0rc1 (no hogs there)

Regards,
Jacek Lach


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