Re: Update: Web browsers - a mini-farce (MSIE gives in)

[<gabrield89 () hotmail com>]

In-Reply-To: <20041023001154.F23256 () dekadens coredump cx>

> Last but not least, MSIE gives in:
>
> >   Only MSIE appears to be able to consistently handle [*] malformed
> >   input well, suggesting this is the only program that underwent
> >   rudimentary security QA testing with a similar fuzz utility.
>
> To all those who considered my original post to be a great propaganda
> ammunition for praising MSIE, bad news - although it did take a longer
> while for it to give up - three hours - (impressive by comparison to
> competitors), it eventually did:
>
>  http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ie_die1.html
>
> Tested on 6.0.2800.1106, dies in mshtml.dll. This is a NULL pointer
> dereference, so merely a DoS condition, but still an evident flaw in
> basic HTML parsing.

Testing on Windows 98 running IE 6.0.2800.1106. Nothing happens. IE does not crash. Can anyone else confirm this?