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Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 5 & 6 Remote Denial of Service (DoS) using IMG & XML elements Jan 14 2006 11:33PM
inge henriksen booleansoft com
** Inge Henriksen Security Advisory - Full Disclosure Proof of Concept at http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/ **

Advisory Name:
Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 5 & 6 Remote Denial of Service (DoS) using IMG & XML elements

Release Date:
14. January 2006

Vulnerable Product:
Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 5
Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 6

Tested and Confirmed Vulerable:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 with IE 6.0.2790.0
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server 5.00.2195 with Service Pack 4 and IE 5.00.3700.1000
Other combinations are likely to be vulnerable, so far all systems that I have tested had the bug.

Severity:
Medium

Discovered by:
Inge Henriksen (inge.henriksen (at) booleansoft (dot) com [email concealed]) http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/

Vendor Status:
Notified 30. December 2005, no fix at present.

Arbitrary Code Injection:
This is a null pointer dereference, so no arbitrary code injection is likely. Thanks to H D Moore from Metasploit for help on this issue.

Overview:
I have found that Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 5 and Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 6 are vulnerable
to a Denial of Service. So far all combinations of OS's and IE versions I have tested are vulnerable.
The exploit is triggered by a bad IMG element combined with a bad XML block, this html code can by hidden
inside a webpage etc. to cause a Denial of Service for all that tries to view that webpage.

Full Disclosure Proof of Concept at http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/

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