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Re: Dumb IE6/XP denial of service found on the web

From: Kim Christensen <kim.christensen () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:58:19 +0100

On a side note, this managed to b0rk my Firefox aswell.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111
Firefox/1.5

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Kim Christensen
kim.christensen () gmail com

On 31 Dec 2005 18:13:12 -0000, 8ux1fpd02 () sneakemail com
<8ux1fpd02 () sneakemail com> wrote:

Wow, a simple big jpeg completely crashes (and reboots) Windows XP SP2 with all the latest patches when viewed in IE6.

-> DON'T GO with Internet Explorer if you don't want to crash: http://www.geocities.com/teh_kids/index.html (no 
problems whatsoever in Firefox or Opera).

Is this a known unpatched vulnerability?

Current thread:

Dumb IE6/XP denial of service found on the web 8ux1fpd02 (Jan 04)
- Re: Dumb IE6/XP denial of service found on the web Francois Labreque (Jan 05)
- RE: Dumb IE6/XP denial of service found on the web Mario Contestabile (Jan 05)
- Re: Dumb IE6/XP denial of service found on the web Kim Christensen (Jan 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Dumb IE6/XP denial of service found on the web rebornrebel (Jan 11)