{"id":271,"date":"2005-12-08T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T07:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=270"},"modified":"2005-12-08T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T07:42:40","slug":"firefox-15-buffer-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2005\/12\/08\/firefox-15-buffer-overflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 1.5 buffer overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Basically firefox logs all kinda of URL data in it&#8217;s history.dat file, this little script will set a really large topic and Firefox will then save that topic into it&#8217;s history.dat.. The next time that firefox is opened, it will instantly crash due to a buffer overflow &#8212; this will happen everytime until you manually delete the history.dat file &#8212; which most users won&#8217;t figure out.<\/p>\n<p>this proof of concept will only prevent someone from reopening their browser after being exploited. DoS if you will. however, code execution is possible with some modifcations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/packetstormsecurity.org\/0512-exploits\/firefox-1.5-buffer-overflow.txt\">packet storm<\/a> via Juha<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Basically firefox logs all kinda of URL data in it&#8217;s history.dat file, this little script will set a really large topic and Firefox will then save that topic into it&#8217;s history.dat.. The next time that firefox is opened, it will instantly crash due to a buffer overflow &#8212; this will happen everytime until you manually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,28,16,19],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bugsglitches","tag-mozilla","tag-news","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}