On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:05:45PM +0100, Nuno Tavares wrote:
This i very odd, I haven't seen this for years. I have a
JPEG/JFIF that
when opened with Mozilla will lock the whole system, and sometimes will
reboot the system after a little while.
My short investigation led me to conclude that this is a bug both in
kernel (as it reboots) and in Gecko-based browsers - gecko is the
HTML rendering engine used in Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany and probably
others. This last assumption is due that Konqueror will not crash.
Unfortunely, the JPEG file has some sensitive information, and this hasn't
happened with anyother. No error messages, nothing. I'm looking for ways
to debug this, both firefox and the kernel. How do I do that?
Just guessing...
Research compression bombs in this mailing list and in Google.
Make sure that you have limits (ulimit -a) that are within
the bounds of physical DRAM then launch the browser.
If you are not root, and the kernel causes a reboot then you have a
bug. Perhaps it is a bug in the hardware gfx side of the windowing
system.
Are you fully up2date?
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