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Re: res:// weirdness


From: "Bluefish (P.Magnusson)" <11a () GMX NET>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:03:42 +0200

Windows 95 B, Swedish version (OSR 2.5 I believe it is)
Internet Explorer 5.50.4134.0600, 128 bit cipher (english version)
Both shdoclc.dll and shdocvw.dll contain the unicode string 
"ProductVersion 5.50.4134.600".

All testing indicates the system is *not* to be vulnerable to the
described bug.

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    eleventh alliance development & security team       


On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Markku-Juhani Saarinen wrote:

Hi,

  I don't know whether this is new or not, but the following URL seems
  to totally blow up IE 5, opening new windows until system
  resources are exhausted. This applies at least to NT 4 boxes with
  IE 5.5.

    res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.securityfocus.com/

  I found this basically while reading through SHDOCLC.DLL.

  If nothing special happens, try entering that url for the second time.
  Apparently cache is somehow involved with this thing.

- mj

Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen <mjos () jyu fi>  University of Jyväskylä, Finland



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