Firefox 1.5_5.1 now crashed system on startup

[eoghan]

On 12 Dec 2005, at 21:18, eoghan wrote:

> On 12 Dec 2005, at 20:36, FreeBSD Maillists wrote:
>
>>>>> I am using FreeBSD 6.0 release and Firefox 1.5_5.1.  With my  
>>>>> old kernel
>>>>> which did not have SMP and hyperthreading enabled, it would  
>>>>> just run
>>>>> the cpu up to 100% upon startup.  Now with SMP and hyperthreading
>>>>> enabled it locks up the computer and I have to give the  
>>>>> computer a hard
>>>>> power down.  The cpu is a P4.
>>>>
>>>>> Any hints as to what might be going on are appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> It's a new bug (with workable exploit) in Firefox 1.5.
>>>> Delete file history.dat from you Firefox 1.5 installation.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.softodrom.ru/win/blogs/b717.shtml   (In Russian)
>>>> http://www.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/242789.php (In English)
>>
>>> I went and tried that, but I still ended up crashing my computer.  I
>>> wonder if I should delete the whole ~/.mozilla/firefox directory?
>>> Perhaps it is corrupted.
>>
>> Quote from http://www.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/242789.php
>>> The next time that firefox is
>>> opened, it will instantly crash due to a buffer overflow -- this  
>>> will
>>> happen everytime until you manually delete the history.dat file  
>>> -- which
>>> most users won't figure out.
>>
>> Maybe problem in something other...
>
> I running 6.0-RELEASE and just upgraded to 1.5. It doesnt open for  
> me at all.
> Where do you find the history.dat file?

Ok I have it. Deleted it too and trying to run it in KDE, it doesnt  
load for me either.
Not sure where I should look for any error logged?