Re: Crash IE with shell://:

["CJ Oster" <cjo () dothe12 com>]

Just a little info, the shell://: in IE6 public preview also crashes
explorer.exe on win2k, at least on my machine.  The wierd thing is that it
doesn't crash completely.  That is the task bar stays on the screen, as well
as all the icons, but you can't do anything with them and I have to go into
the task manager and kill explorer.exe and restart it.

-CJO-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kayne Ian (Softlab)" <Ian.Kayne () softlab co uk>
To: "Vuln-Dev" <VULN-DEV () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:52 AM
Subject: Crash IE with shell://:


> All...
> Wrote this little thing in a few spare mins. I'm no use with
> javascript or webbased coding, so I'm sure there's much more you could do
> with this. Anyway, attached is a .html that crashes all the machines I
> tested it on - be prepared to loose explorer.exe if you run it. I guess
this
> is a working exploit/bug (and a really annoying one if it starts appearing
> on the web), so if someone wants to forward this to the appropriate people
> (bugtraq? microsoft?) then go for it... Also, if we could narrow down
> exactly what it takes to fix it in the current versions, that would be
good
> too.
>
> enjoy...
>
> Ian Kayne
> Technical Specialist - IT Solutions
> Softlab Ltd - A BMW Company
>
>
>  <<iecrashtest.htm>>
>
>
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