Re: Potential overflow in Internet Explorer

[Lord Soth <hydrax () NETVISION NET IL>]

Hi, I tested that with my Win98 and IExplorer version 4.72.3110.37,
with SP1 (as you can imagine, i dont use IE.. :)
I didn't manage to crash IE at all, so this is a new bug, probably..

LS/E

joetesta () HUSHMAIL COM wrote:

> Hi all --
>
>     While doing some testing on a web server, I discovered that Internet
> Explorer crashes when the following URL is typed in the address bar:
>
>         http://www.server.com/[a lot of 'A's]
>
> Here is the resulting dump:
>
> IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in
> module <unknown> at 0000:41414141.
> Registers:
> EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=41414141 EFLGS=00010246
> EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0058568c EBP=41414141
> ECX=0000002e DS=0187 ESI=01eef058 FS=581f
> EDX=004bcd28 ES=0187 EDI=0042b6ac GS=0000
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
>
> Stack dump:
> 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
> 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
> 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
> 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
>
>     I am using version 5.50.4522.1800 on Win98 SE with all critical updates
> installed.  I attempted to reproduce this crash on three other machines
> without success.  Their version numbers where:
>
>         5.00.2614.3500,
>         5.50.4134.0100,
>         5.50.4134.0600
>
>     It seems as though this may be some sort of regression error,
> bad mix of software, or both.  Can anyone else reproduce this?
>
>         - Joe Testa  ( joetesta () hushmail com )