Archives for the Date July 26th, 2013

Hacking Firefox

I was playing with Firefox to see what crashes it and thought SVG might be a good place to look. I tried combinations of all elements nested together and came across problems with script. <script>str='';for(i=0;i<0xefff;i++){str+='<script>AAAAAA';};document.write('<svg>'+str+'</svg>');</script> This causes a complete crash in Firefox but is it only a DoS? It appears so. I booted up windbg…stack […]