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Microsoft IE for Solaris X Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

It has been reported that in some situations, Internet Explorer 5.0 SP1 for Solaris is able to crash the X server. In particular, this has been reported with Chinese versions of the software.

If a chinese language web page is displayed, and rapidly scrolled, it is possible to end the user session. The user is ejected back to the initial login prompt. This may also happen if the IE window is maximized. If this is done several times, the X server may crash entirely.

This vulnerability can result in the denial of service to all X users.