Fwd: Re: Buffer Overflow with all versions of Internet Explorer and Javacript.

[Koos Vriezen]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Harri Porten wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Dirk Mueller wrote:
>
> > On Die, 04 Jun 2002, Harri Porten wrote:
> >
> > > Do you know of they abort, i.e. ever the leave the recursion ? Or do they
> > > also continue infinitely with the CPU load being lower because of
> > > threading ?

In IE you get a warning if a JS script takes too long.

> >
> > I think they have a recursion limit. We had one too I seem to remember, why
> > was the code disabled?
>
> The only limit that was and still is there is against too many recursive
> calls to the interpreter (html event->js->html->js->...). I'll try to
> think of something for internal recursions. But I wouldn't know what to
> really do against infinite loops like while(1);. They can be by design and
> harmless but there is no way to abort them, yet. Easier with threading.

Maybe use SIGALARM?

Regards,

Koos