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April appeared to be a month of IE bugs. Here's another one. Apr 29 2003 06:23PM ERRor (error pochtamt ru) (2 replies) Re: April appeared to be a month of IE bugs. Here's another one. Apr 29 2003 08:00PM Cove Schneider (cove wildpackets com) |
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Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v73)
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE
VSIZE
3249 Safari 94.2% 0:07.20 4 108 288 5.40M 23.1M 14.7M
130M
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 11:23 AM, ERRor wrote:
> Hello, Bugtraq.
>
> Malicious htm file can freeze IE with 100% CPU usage:
> Construct the file freeze.htm:
> c:\>perl -e "print qq'\xFF\xFE'; print qq'\r\n' x 30000" > freeze.htm
>
> After opening freeze.htm IE will hang with 100% CPU usage until
> IEXPLORE.EXE
> process is not killed. Two bytes (0xff 0xfe) at the beginning of the
> file
> mean that
> the encoding is unicode. So the internal unicode representation of the
> CR LF
> sequence
> will look like 0D0A0D0A but not 000D000A (if the file was a plain
> ASCII).
> Tested on IE 6.0 with all fixes, i think other versions also
> vulnerable.
>
>
> Best Regards, ERRor, dHtm.
> P.S. greets to .einstein. and dHtm
>
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