Messages in this thread | | | From | Melchior FRANZ <> | Subject | Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0) | Date | Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:53:53 +0200 |
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* rjh@world.std.com -- Thursday 13 June 2002 18:33: > It resulted in an almost infinite size malloc() request.
No. AFAIK it is caused in the file xc/lib/font/Type1/t1font.c by wrong RAM requirement estimation heuristics. Not too much memory is requested but too few! And if XFree actually needs more memory than it had originally estimated and requested, it simply aborts.
m.
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