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Re: MS Internet Explorer 7 Denial Of Service Exploit

craig@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Konqueror 3.5.9, what happens is that this childish code builds a huge 
string, eats memory, causes swapping, and finally blows away Konq.  Linux and X 
and everything else stay up and recover nicely.  (Gentoo/AMD64X2/3G mem)

This isn't an exploit -- at least not on Linux -- it's just kiddie stupidity.  
It doesn't take any particular cleverness to blow memory by dynamically 
creating bigger and bigger data structures.  With virtual memory and 64-bit 
pointers, when exactly do we return -ENOMEM?
Could you be a bit more specific as to the circumstances of the DOS exploit and how this could be replicated? 
Thank you.