Re: IE Denial of service (sorta)

[Simon Kornblith <slists () simonster com>]

On 12/4/01 5:00 PM, "zeno" <zeno () cgisecurity net> wrote:

> Hey
>
> I found this months ago and though it was patched but it managed to cause new
> errors
> on win me with all updates on IE in kernel. On default win2k IE install it
> sucks up 100 percent cpu
> for half on hour(128 meg of ram).
>
> Please click on it and tell me what happens to you.
> (include version and patch info)
>
> Its a image tag with some garbage characters in a particular order.
> I haven't bothered contacting microsoft yet because I'm not sure just how
> common a problem
> this is, and with what patches installed.
>
> www.cgisecurity.com/crash.shtml
> also try /crash2.shtml

On IE 5.1 for Mac OS X pretty much makes IE useless for a few minutes, then
puts some garbage characters on the screen.

Probably a worse effect on IE 5 for Classic Mac OS as you might not be able
to use the machine for a while.

Same results with crash2.shtml

Simon