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Re: MSIE crash-"feature"
From: "Richard Pachito" <alpyha () prodigy net>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:41:42 -0700
I think it's pretty interesting how you can crash IE using that gif, but not explorer when it goes to preview. I thought it rendered the html using IE? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Bodin" <magnus () bodin org> To: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:35 AM Subject: MSIE crash-"feature"
Sorry if this is old news already, but IE has a rather interesting feature (tested with 6.0.2600.0000 whatever that means) It crashes on very minimalistic code; check here: http://x42.com/test/ie_feature.html It can be further stripped down and even sent as different MIME-type (see
old
posting about the MIME-"smartness in IE): http://x42.com/test/galopp.gif For those who want to test it with their HTML-compatible mail reader, send a mail to iecrash () x42 com and you will get a HTML-mail in return. /magnus -- http://x42.com
Current thread:
- MSIE crash-"feature" Magnus Bodin (Apr 23)
- Re: MSIE crash-"feature" Richard Pachito (Apr 24)
- Re: MSIE crash-"feature" Remington Winters (Apr 28)
- Re: MSIE crash-"feature" Richard Pachito (Apr 24)