[29051] in bugtraq
Re: Netscape 6/7 crashes by a simple stylesheet...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Wofford)
Tue Feb 25 17:26:26 2003
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:53:17 -0600 (CST)
From: "John Wofford" <jwofford@mail.mste.uiuc.edu>
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I have verified this in Mozilla 1.0.1 (Gecko/20020826) on Windows XP Prof.
SP1. The browser stops responding, but can be closed without brute force.
-John
>
>
> Hi, I'm new here so I don't know if I posted this in the correct
> list...
> I've found out that some simple CSS-code can crash Netscape 6 and 7.
> This is a simple html-page containing this code:
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <div style="position:absolute;">
>
> <div style="position:absolute; overflow:scroll">
>
> </div>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Was this already known?
>
> /Jocke
