Description
Firefox and Mozilla allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and then sorts the newly created arrays.
References
- 20041125 FIREFOX flaws: nested array sort() loop Stack overflow exception mailing-list
- web-browser-array-dos(18282) vdb-entry
- 11752 vdb-entry
- 20041125 MSIE & FIREFOX flaws: "detailed" advisory and comments that you probably don't want to read anyway mailing-list
- 11760 vdb-entry