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HTML Rendering Crashes IE

Posted by michael on from the tough-job dept.

SlimySlimy writes "According to this article on Secunia, a new IE exploit was found that crashes almost any version of Internet Explorer past 4.0 with just 5 lines of plain HTML code (no JavaScript, ActiveX, etc.). If you're very brave, you can test/crash your IE by going here." There's also a note on SecurityFocus.

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  1. Yep... by scubacuda · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just tried it, and it DOES crash on the latest fully patched version of IE.

    Anyone actually *look* at those lines of code? It's just:

    <html>

    <form>

    <input type crash>

    </form>

    </html>

    I'm surprised that the /. crowd hasn't yet embedded these 5 lines into the slash code!

  2. Unaffected here by athagon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Didn't crash my browser. Oh wait, I'm using Safari. Good for me.

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  3. Re:mozilla crashes too by magnum3065 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmm, no problem on Phoenix build 20030407. Tried it turning on and off the ability for JavaScript to raise and lower windows.

  4. Re:ME??? by aarondyck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What can I say? The only reason I have that PC is so that other members of my household won't be confused by Linux. There's only so much you can expect out of non-slashdot-type-people. Would it be possible to migrate everyone to Linux I would have tried already, but apparently the other members of my household are afraid to lose their blue screens and other miscellaneous features that MS was so kind to provide us with...Of course, it kind of pisses me off when they leave the blue screensaver on and tell me that I have to fix it...I've told them how to fix it--get Linux.

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  5. clearly this is on purpose by claude_juan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it may just be me, but it seems that this was thrown in intentionally by a code monkey, probably for error checking. so chill out. or better yet, make sites that take advantage of it! i dont know about you, but i get pretty pissed at those sites that require certain browsers, plugins, etc. this is your chance to make the windows world use something *better* (mozilla, phoenix, etc). web developers unite!

  6. Opera is not affected by any of this by Bazouel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I tried the code of the article and various piece of code given in comments and nothing can make Opera crashes or even make it behave funny.

    Yet another reason to use it !

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