Firefox DoS attack affects konqueror/KDE too

[Martijn Klingens]

On Monday 12 December 2005 11:36, Pavel Troller wrote:
>   On the other side, it should be said that konqueror is not vulnerable the
> same way as firefox; there is no need to erase any files before using it
> again.

The same is true with Firefox. The issue is greatly overhyped in the mass 
media. Admitted, the way FF reads in the data isn't exactly high-performant, 
and it should probably have truncated the title on write already to something 
sensible, but if you give FF enough time and memory it WILL startup properly.

See the SANS article for a better description: 
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=920 (a great resource for computer 
security anyway, well worth adding the RSS feed).

-- 
Martijn