Potential overflow in Internet Explorer

[joetesta () HUSHMAIL COM]

Hi all --


    While doing some testing on a web server, I discovered that Internet
Explorer crashes when the following URL is typed in the address bar:


        http://www.server.com/[a lot of 'A's]


Here is the resulting dump:


IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:41414141.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=41414141 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0058568c EBP=41414141
ECX=0000002e DS=0187 ESI=01eef058 FS=581f
EDX=004bcd28 ES=0187 EDI=0042b6ac GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:

Stack dump:
41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141


    I am using version 5.50.4522.1800 on Win98 SE with all critical updates
installed.  I attempted to reproduce this crash on three other machines
without success.  Their version numbers where:

        5.00.2614.3500,
        5.50.4134.0100,
        5.50.4134.0600

    It seems as though this may be some sort of regression error,
bad mix of software, or both.  Can anyone else reproduce this?


        - Joe Testa  ( joetesta () hushmail com )