A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when handling large history information passed the the "history.dat" file (e.g. an overly large title), which could be exploited via a specially crafted Web page to cause a vulnerable application to crash or consume a large amount of system resources.
Note : A fully functional exploit has been released.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by ZIPLOCK
ChangeLog
2005-12-08 : Initial release
2005-12-08 : Updated References
2006-02-02 : Updated Solution
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