In article <DFv6uo.4so@sgi.sgi.com>, Ray Cromwell <rjc@clark.net> writes:
C'punks, I just got back from a vacation in Raleigh, and downloaded the new "fixed" Netscape 1.12. It took me about an hour, but I've discovered another bug and potential security hole. This one relates to mailto:.
The bug is as follows. Create a HTML file with a hyperlink containing the following URL
foo
This bug doesn't seem to crash Netscape, instead, it crashes my XServer as soon as the mail window pops op. I'm too tired right now to try to analyze it, but it might be another stack bug, this time, in the X libraries because Netscape isn't doing any sanity checking.
This is a bug in your X server, not in netscape. The X server should never crash no matter what you send to it.
I need help testing this bug on other platforms. I have created a test page. Go to http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~rcromw1/crash.html to test.
This doesn't crash my X server (SGI Irix 6.2), so it's probably specific to XAccel. -- Sure we spend a lot of money, but that doesn't mean | Tom Weinstein we *do* anything. -- Washington DC motto | tomw@engr.sgi.com