[Full-disclosure] DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera
Memory Vandal
memvandal at gmail.com
Thu May 3 17:29:43 BST 2012
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:46 PM, MustLive <mustlive at websecurity.com.ua>wrote:
> > Anybody want to guess how many cores are on his test box? :)
>
> It's too simple puzzle :-). The most interesting in these results it's
> crashes and freezes.
>
> Of course I know about this dependence of CPU consuming from the number of
> CPU cores (just after I've upgraded first time from 1 core to 2 cores CPU
> in
> March 2009). During this testing I've checked this exploit (in Firefox) on
> one notebook - the only computer with single core CPU at my home - and
> results was 88% CPU consumption.
>
Anyone want to bet that he doesn't understand threading? ;)
MemoryVandal
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