Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

[goedel@tezcat.com (Dietrich J. Kappe)]

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>Ray Cromwell writes:
>> I've found a Netscape bug which I suspect is a buffer overflow and
>> may have the potential for serious damage. If it is an overflow bug,
>> then it may be possible to infect every computer which accesses a web
>> page with Netscape. To see the bug, create an html file containing
>> the following:
>
>Oh brother, this is unbelievable !
>
>I'm using Netscape 1.1N under SunOS 4.1.2.
>
>It turns out that the same (or a similar) flaw resides in the Open Location
>input routine -- perhaps this merely coincides with the code called when a
>URL is clicked. Anyway, pasting a URL with an overlong domain name a la
Ray's
>example causes two things:
>
>(1) Part of the Open Location window widget, below the entry box, gets
>overwritten onscreen with a portion of the entered URL.
>
>(2) Netscape crashes with a segmentation fault (no core dump that I can
see).

Netscape 1.1N on a powermac crashes hard on that url. If anyone wants to try
it out, I've put up a simple page with the url at

http://www.redweb.com/experiment/bug.html

*warning* view the source before you click on strange links!!!

I don't do PPC assembler, so I can't tell you what happened.


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