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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:32:03 -0300
From: Gustavo Grieco <gustavo.grieco@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: DoS loading a SVG in Firefox

This issue was recently minimized and isolated to the circular use of
xlink:hrefs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1297206#c5

Is a CVE suitable for this DoS?

Regards,
Gustavo.

2016-10-06 12:09 GMT-03:00 Gustavo Grieco <gustavo.grieco@...il.com>:

> Hello,
>
> Some months ago, we found that just loading this image:
>
> https://dcc.fceia.unr.edu.ar/~ggrieco/oom.svg (518K)
>
> will cause Firefox to consume all your memory. Once you click, you
> cannot stop the memory constant memory leak. It can take a few minutes
> (we tested in a desktop computer with 16GB). At the end, Firefox will
> abort or it will be terminated by the OS.
>
> At least Firefox 49 and 51 in several platforms are affected. A report
> in the Mozilla bug tracker was filled:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1297206
>
> Please assign a CVE if suitable.
>
> Regards,
> Gustavo.
>

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