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Vulnerability Development: RE: IE 5.x (5.50.4522.1800 SP1) Crash at gopher://:

RE: IE 5.x (5.50.4522.1800 SP1) Crash at gopher://:

From: Bo Stark <bo_at_stark.nu>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:43:58 +0200

At 11:42 2001-05-16 +0100, you wrote:

>Now, the wierd thing is this. I've managed to make this happen a few times,
>but it seems slightly random. Wonder if anyone else can reproduce this:
>
>1. type shell://: hit return. Normal extra window appears
>2. type shell://:; hit return. TWO extra windows appear
>3. type shell://:;; hit return. 2 or 3 extra windows appear
>4. type shell://: hit return. Explorer comes back with an exception error:
>
>The Exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the
>application at location 0x76c82587

"shell://:;" crashed both ie and explorer.exe on one machine.
It didn't work on two other with SP2, so I guess SP2 will fix it.

However, "gopher://:" still makes them crash ie.

-- 
Bo Stark [bo_at_stark.nu]
PGP: 0x36D8D763
Received on May 17 2001
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