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Why is it possible to receive a response that crashes the browser? I'll allow (with reservations) your premise that browsers aren't so independent anymore. But
by lmkg 14y ago
Why is it possible to receive a response that crashes the browser? I'll allow (with reservations) your premise that browsers aren't so independent anymore. But it seems to me that input from an external source (even trusted) ought to be validated, and malformed input should raise a warning or something. The fact that crashing is a possible behavior upon receiving unexpected input is surprising to me.
- polyfractal 14y agoWell that's the point of a bug, isn't it? Chrome didn't handle malformed input appropriately and crashed because of it. It wasn't a command that shut down Chrome, it was just poor handling of an edge-case which resulted in unexpected behavior (crash). It's a sad truth that most programs will explode if you fling garbage at them. When push comes to shove, many development timelines don't have room to bulletproof against everything
- deelowe 14y agoWhy is it possible to gain admin access to an operating system by sending requests that crash the web server? Bugs happen.