[21614] in bugtraq
Re: Linux, too, sot of (Windows MS-DOS Device Name DoS vulnerabilities)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Skoll)
Wed Jul 18 13:46:30 2001
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:34:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
To: Ishikawa <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp>
Cc: "bugtraq@securityfocus.com" <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Ishikawa wrote:
> The next is a showstopper.
> The problem URL that caused the hung of browser,
> at least, on my PC is the following.
> file:///dev/pty0
However, the UNIX API has a very simple and *reliable* way around this:
stat(2)
I hope Mozilla authors are listening and start stat'in file:/// urls.
There is no simple and reliable equivalent under 'doze.
--
David.
