Re: MSIE crash-"feature"

From: Richard Pachito (alpyhaat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 18:41:42 PDT

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    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" <magnusat_private>
    To: <vuln-devat_private>
    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
    >
    >     iecrashat_private
    >
    > and you will get a HTML-mail in return.
    >
    > /magnus
    >
    > --
    > http://x42.com
    



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