Re: [Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-28 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Thierry Zoller [2009-05-28 23:38]: [...] > General comment: I am interesting to see the kind of feedback I > get when posting an Firefox bug as opposed to bugs of other vendors. > It's almost like you hit a little boy and everybody steps into for > his defence. > > Anyways, too muc

Re: [Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-28 Thread Tavis Ormandy
Thierry Zoller wrote: > > A memory leak in an interactive program that requires you to view a > > hostile page for 9hours is clearly of negligible security impact. > Ok I will take the strawman : Your random application of meaning to terminology is at least entertaining. > Only a few bytes of "k

Re: [Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-28 Thread Thierry Zoller
Hi Travis, With all due respect: >A memory leak in an interactive program that requires you to view a hostile >page for 9hours is clearly of negligible security impact. Ok I will take the strawman : The impact is Denial of Service. Ignoring that this discussion is of *any* interest to anybod

Re: [Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-28 Thread Tavis Ormandy
Thierry Zoller wrote: > Hi Tavis, > > The bug title says Denial of service, not information leak, or crypto > leak or whatever. I'm confused what it is you're replying to, I was clearly pointing out your misunderstanding of the term "memory leak" in the "impact" section of your post lead you t

Re: [Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-28 Thread Tavis Ormandy
Thierry Zoller wrote: > According to a Bugzilla entry memory is also leaked during the process. > > So let's recap, we have a function that generates key material and looping > causes memory to leak. One might think this should be important enough to > investigate, especially if you know that for

Re: [Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-27 Thread Pete Licoln
Looks like some doctors have made some in vitro fertilization fuzzing with jeremy a while ago ... 2009/5/27 Jeremy Brown <0xjbrow...@gmail.com> > Looks like somebody's been using a browser fuzzer :) > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Thierry Zoller wrote: > > __

Re: [Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-27 Thread Jeremy Brown
Looks like somebody's been using a browser fuzzer :) On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Thierry Zoller wrote: > > >              From the very-low-hanging-fruit-department >                   Firefox Denial of Service (KEYGEN)

[Full-disclosure] [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)

2009-05-27 Thread Thierry Zoller
From the very-low-hanging-fruit-department Firefox Denial of Service (KEYGEN) Release mode: Forced release. Ref