Errors in IE - are they exploitable?

From: Franklin DeMatto (franklinat_private)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 06:22:04 PST

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Not to rarely, Internet Explorer crashes on me, with the Dr. Watson box 
popping up.  Now, I don't believe that these are simple buffer overflows 
and the like, but are rather more likely caused by a complicated internal 
state with some bugs in it.  They are certainly not easily 
reproducible.  My question is:  are these exploitable?  Using JavaScript, 
etc., it would easy to put IE through whatever loops are necessary to get 
to a particular state.

All I have to work with is the Dr. Watson logs & dumps.  Like I said, these 
are not easily reproducable.  If anyone has any advice on this, please 
share it.

Franklin DeMatto
Senior Analyst, qDefense Penetration Testing
franklinat_private
http://qDefense.com
qDefense: Making Security Accessible

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