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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Byoung-Kee Yi <kee@wam.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: A v2.2.1 vulnerablilty?
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On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Byoung-Kee Yi wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> At least once, my system(v2.2.1) went frozen
> while running Netscape navigator v3.01.
> It apparently seemed because available memory
> ran out. Is this a vulneraility related to
> only v2.2.1 or earlier?

It's a Netscape bug.  Netscape has always had memory leaks.  Visiting
sites with lots of graphics and Java crashes it faster.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major