[NEWS] Mozilla Firefox Crash

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Mozilla Firefox Crash
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SUMMARY

<http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/> Mozilla Firefox - The award-winning,
free Web browser.

Using a specially crafted HTML form, it is possible to crash Firefox.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* Firefox version 1.5.0.4 and prior.

Send any file by the form with ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" and
method="POST" when file upload successful try refresh page (F5 or refresh
button).

* Upload file by form
* Refresh page
* Firefox crash with segfault

Example html:
<form action="" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
file name:<input type="file" name="filee">
<input type="submit">
</form>


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:reywen@xxxxxxxxx> reyw.



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