Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0)

From: Melchior FRANZ (a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 12:17:49 EST

* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 13 June 2002 18:49:
> * rjh@world.std.com -- Thursday 13 June 2002 18:33:
> > It resulted in an almost infinite size malloc() request.
>
> No. AFAIK it is caused in the file xc/lib/font/Type1/t1font.c
                                                       ^^^^^^^^
This should have been t1func.c, sorry.

m.

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