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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: Sven van īt Veer <sven_at_vip.br>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:30:06 -0300

when typing shell://: in netscape, it warns that shell is not a
registered protocol and crashes when clicking OK.

Bo Stark wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
Received on May 21 2001

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