On 12 Dec 2005, at 20:36, FreeBSD Maillists wrote:
I am using FreeBSD 6.0 release and Firefox 1.5_5.1. With my old
kernel
which did not have SMP and hyperthreading enabled, it would just
run
the cpu up to 100% upon startup. Now with SMP and hyperthreading
enabled it locks up the computer and I have to give the computer
a hard
power down. The cpu is a P4.
Any hints as to what might be going on are appreciated.
It's a new bug (with workable exploit) in Firefox 1.5.
Delete file history.dat from you Firefox 1.5 installation.
http://www.softodrom.ru/win/blogs/b717.shtml (In Russian)
http://www.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/242789.php (In English)
I went and tried that, but I still ended up crashing my computer. I
wonder if I should delete the whole ~/.mozilla/firefox directory?
Perhaps it is corrupted.
Quote from http://www.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/242789.php
The next time that firefox is
opened, it will instantly crash due to a buffer overflow -- this will
happen everytime until you manually delete the history.dat file --
which
most users won't figure out.
Maybe problem in something other...
I running 6.0-RELEASE and just upgraded to 1.5. It doesnt open for me
at all.
Where do you find the history.dat file?
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