Re: MSIE crash-"feature"

["Richard Pachito" <alpyha () prodigy net>]

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" <magnus () bodin org>
To: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
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
>
>     iecrash () x42 com
>
> and you will get a HTML-mail in return.
>
> /magnus
>
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