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On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution

fosstodon.org Gabriele Svelto (@[email protected])

On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread ...

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[HN] A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux

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Due to shitty JS from Google.
- Any os-level crash in a js interpreter is by definition a bug in the js interpreter and not the javascript.
  
  Not sure what you mean by OS-level. It crashed a browser which is really easy to do, especially with:
  
  This is where things got weird, Google's code was allocating 20000 variables in a single frame.
  
  It’s pretty much a DoS at this point.
They will try to force snap on Debian

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