Another IE denial of service attack

["Wodahs Latigid" <wodahs () mail com>]

Hi,

While we're on the subject of Internet Explorer DoS attacks,
heres one that I found a while back. On a P800 with 512mb RAM,
it causes 100% CPU utilisation and hangs Internet Explorer
until it is killed. This is more of an annoyance than anything.

This has been tested with IE version 4 on Windows NT, versions
5.5 and 5.5sp2 on Windows 95, and version 5.00 on Windows 2000
with the same results.

You can find the test page at:
http://www.ministryofpeace.co.uk/iehang.html

The problem seems to occur when continuously updating a
simple form text box over and over. I have also found that
pasting a large amount of any letter into such a text box
will eventually crash IE - can anyone verify this?


Teknix
http://www.ministryofpeace.co.uk/


















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