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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror DoS
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-27 11:54:33
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On Tuesday 27 November 2001 06:42, Michael Häckel wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:43, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> > Just received a bug report stating the attached HTML code (basically, an
> > <input type=password value=(some thousand characters)> tag) can crash
> > Konqueror.
> >
> > Quite possibly a buffer overrun somewhere.
>
> That looks like the usual X-Server bug, we also get about two bug reports
> per week for KMail for more than six months now.
>
> Disabling anti aliasing allows you to enter a longer line, but at some
> point the whole X-Server crashes then.

  Why don't these things just get truncated after a reasonable length then?  
Should we have a cleansing method somewhere in kdelibs for that?

-- 

George Staikos

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