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Message-ID: <CACn5sdQxo7hS2_7m4_tMS2iK_b2YZSjmCL41yYof6J7qwWtN1w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 12:09:05 -0300
From: Gustavo Grieco <gustavo.grieco@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: DoS loading a SVG in Firefox

Hello,

Some months ago, we found that just loading this image:

https://dcc.fceia.unr.edu.ar/~ggrieco/oom.svg (518K)

will cause Firefox to consume all your memory. Once you click, you
cannot stop the memory constant memory leak. It can take a few minutes
(we tested in a desktop computer with 16GB). At the end, Firefox will
abort or it will be terminated by the OS.

At least Firefox 49 and 51 in several platforms are affected. A report
in the Mozilla bug tracker was filled:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1297206

Please assign a CVE if suitable.

Regards,
Gustavo.

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