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December 15, 2005

The Latest Firefox Exploit

Click through for more info on this Firefox exploit.

Apparently Firefox logs URL data in history.dat, meaning that it will save titles. If we make our title long enough, such as with the following bit of javascript, we can execute a denial of service (DOS) attack against Firefox the next time it loads:

 

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Posted on December 15, 2005 01:36 AM by Firefo84.
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