Public bug reported: using feisty fawn, updated today (2007/04/14)
basically, you can achieve some DOSage (cpu maxing, rendering firefox unusable) by going to System > Preferences > Preferred applications > Mail Reader > Custom > Command, and entering one of the following: firefox %s firefox URL %s (eg, firefox www.google.com %s) then clicking a mailto: link. firefox %s will cause a new tab to be opened roughly every second, making firefox unusable firefox URL %s will cause a new firefox window to open roughly every 5 seconds, with two tabs (homepage and a tab titled 'mailto:email-that- was-clicked), maxing CPU and network usage, and causing me to have to xkill firefox. Note that I tested this with firefox -safe-mode. if you have certain extensions enabled (eg, tabmix plus), you get slightly different (but equally annoying) results. eg, with tabmix plus enabled, i got a blank tab opening, that spawned another blank tab whenever it lost focus (including being closed). not sure how serious this is, but like i said you can do some DOS-like stuff (maxing out cpu etc) with it. ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Firefox DOS (kind of) through bad 'preferred applications' custom mail reader command https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
