Re[2]: Crash IE with shell://:

["Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard () WPI EDU>]

Hey Peter,

    Interestingly, with the "IE Error Reporting" tool, your page degrades
    gracefully for me.  I mean, it still dies, and I report the error (maybe
    something will be done someday), but it does it "nicely" I guess.  It's
    usually the gopher thing that triggers that for me.  But the shell one kills
    me every time.  My entire task bar disappears and I have to restart explorer
    (Win2k, sp1, IE 5.50.4522.1800, 128-bit encryption).  And I'm not trying to
    start a flame war here, but I think you're web page title was rather flawed.
    Outside of lynx, IE is unfortunately the best browser I've encountered, and
    I've had far less issues with it than NS or Mozilla.  Likewise, I think this
    shell issue has to do with MS binding IE to the OS, which I do not agree
    with.

    Later.

-- 
 Kevin

Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 10:42:07 AM, you wrote:

P> Guys try www.nul.cjb.net

P> That is my site and it tries to exploit just about every NS/IE/Win9x but that will 
P> make the OS crash [win9x] or IE/NS crash.  Included is this whole gopher thing 
P> also.  

P> btw, that htm page didn't work for me either, -- did nada.

P> On 05/22/2001 11:31:53 AM, cory is quoted as saying:
 

P> . . . .|On Tue, 22 May 2001, Kayne Ian (Softlab) transferred the following data:
P> . . . .|
. . . .|>> 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
. . . .|>>
P> . . . .|
P> . . . .|Tried this against IE 5 ver. 5.00.2614.3500 with little result.
P> . . . .|The .htm shows up for a few seconds, then you recieve a 404 , with the
P> . . . .|Address box changing from http://blah.com/iecrashtest.htm to just
P> . . . .|/test.htm (strange?). During the change to a 404, a smaller box appears
P> . . . .|with res://C:\\Windows\System\SHDOCLC.DLL/syntax.htm explaining that the
P> . . . .|page can not be displayed, possibly because of removal or name change. It
P> . . . .|then request you do the following:
P> . . . .|        Open the 
P> res://C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHDOCLC.DLL/syntax.htm#shell://
P> . . . .|        home page, and then look for the links to the information you
P> . . . .|        want.
P> . . . .|
P> . . . .|Hope that helps
P> . . . .|
P> . . . .|cory



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