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Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
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Jeff Weinstein <[email protected]> writes:
> Not that I want to divert attention away from netscape(OK, maybe I
> do :-) ), but does this bug exist in any other common browser?
Lynx can handle it on the info page (reached by pressing '='), but:
In response to selecting the long domain name found in the Warning link in
http://www.grfn.org/~conrad/test.shtml, lynx replied:
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Sorry, you have encountered a bug in Lynx Ver. 2-4-2
Please send a concise mail message to
[email protected] describing what you were doing,
the URL you were looking at or attempting to access,
your operating system name with version number,
the TCP/IP implementation that your system is using,
and any other information you deem relevant.
Do not mail the core file if one was generated.
Lynx now exiting with signal: 11
Exiting via interrupt: exit(0)
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[No core file was generated]
My system is: (uname -a)
Linux russell 1.3.26 #2 Thu Sep 14 08:34:38 EDT 1995 i486
Netscape 1.1N for linux crashed in a way that locked my system up, and
caused endless trashing. I had to reboot, but my filesystem was
undamaged. Not sure why it crashed and burned on my system while others
have gotten such nice SegVs and core files. I guess I managed to get
just the right (wrong) thing onto the stack. :-) :-(
(P.S. Whoops, just realized that I rebooted with a different kernel;
Lynx did indeed crash under 1.3.26 (post-reboot), but Netscape crashed
under 1.2.13 (pre-reboot). Pardon me if I don't re-try under 1.3.26,
but having X lock up and hearing my disk trash is not something I relish.)
drc
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Last line above should read: "hearing my disk *thrash* ...," not trash.
Signing messages is non-trivial with my current set up, so I don't feel
like re-doing it for such a minor glitch.
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David R. Conrad, [email protected], http://www.grfn.org/~conrad
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