Re: Netscape 4 DoS/Possibly exploitable buffer overflow.

From: SubLett (sublettat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 19 1998 - 12:39:08 PST

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    >Subject: Re: Netscape 4 DoS/Possibly exploitable buffer overflow.
    >Netscape 4.04 on NT 4.0 with SP3 has a buffer overflow in bookmarks, too.
    >
    >Tests with strings up to 3976 bytes did not cause any problems;
    >strings of 3977 bytes length and above crashed netscape while it
    >was loading the bookmark file. The "Dr. Watson" log file did not
    >reveal any obvious indications.
    
    I tried this on my computer running Win95 3.0.950B with Netscape
    4.04 Swedish version. Strings that goes over 1079 chars tend to
    crash netscape...
    
    Norton Crashguard reported the following:
    
    NETSCAPE.EXE caused fault #c0000005 in NETSCAPE.EXE at address 014f:00532b9b
    MSG("Netscape", WM_CREATE, 00000000, 0088E6F4)
    
    -- SubLett
    



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