Re: MSIE crash-"feature"

["Remington Winters" <fyreguy () rivetgeek com>]

What gif? All it was for me was a non declared form.  IE cant parse
non-declared forms....not exactly earth shaking though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Pachito" <alpyha () prodigy net>
To: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: MSIE crash-"feature"


> 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
> >
> > --
> > http://x42.com