Re: IE6 - Crash via DOS device

["Richard Spiers" <dksaarth () unix za net>]

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From: "morning_wood" <se_cur_ity () hotmail com>
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] IE6 - Crash via DOS device


> Oct 30, 2003
> Donnie Werner
> morning_wood () exploitlabs com
>
> I thought these bugs in Internet Explorer 6 had been fixed...
>
> all of these make use of a local call to a
> legacy DOS device, example
> ( file:///AUX ) as a link, called in an iframe ( XSS ) or used as an IMG
> tag.
> I tested,  "CON", "PRN", "AUX", "COMx", "LPTx", "CLOCK$" and "NUL"
> only AUX and COM1 caused a lockup of Internet Explorer 6

Not on my side. None of those links crashed my browser

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