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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Yoni on May 03, 2003, 07:18 AM

Title: Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Yoni on May 03, 2003, 07:18 AM
Found on Slashdot. Not sure whether this should go in the Fun Forum or here, but I put it here anyway.

The following HTML crashes "almost every version of IE past 4.0":

<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>

Note that there is nothing special involved, no scripts, just plain HTML.
Expect a patch in a few days.
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Thing on May 03, 2003, 08:12 AM
Oh My God!  That is just too damn funny.

http://forum.valhallalegends.com/crash.html (http://forum.valhallalegends.com/crash.html)
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: iago on May 03, 2003, 11:19 AM
eew
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: tA-Kane on May 03, 2003, 02:14 PM
Doesn't crash my IE on my Mac... ;D :P
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Invert on May 03, 2003, 02:15 PM
That is funny.
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Yoni on May 03, 2003, 05:47 PM
Quote from: tA-Kane on May 03, 2003, 02:14 PM
Doesn't crash my IE on my Mac... ;D :P
Haha... That's almost ironic.
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Etheran on May 03, 2003, 10:42 PM
it gets worse, windows explorer in winxp crashes when you click on it and it tries to preview it on the side!!!!!
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Yoni on May 03, 2003, 10:46 PM
Well, yes, it's a bug in the HTML renderer.
Anything that uses the HTML renderer and causes it to parse <input type someword> crashes.
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Arta on May 05, 2003, 12:46 PM
lmao, that's just funniness.
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Zakath on May 05, 2003, 02:59 PM
Haha...ph33r Opera not crashing when it views it! ;D
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Grok on May 05, 2003, 05:04 PM
Naturally, it did not escape your notice that "IE" is not spelled O-p-e-r-a.
Title: Re:Highly stupid IE vulnerability
Post by: Zakath on May 05, 2003, 06:55 PM
Oh, come on Grok. You know me better than that. I was merely using this topic as an excuse to plug my web browser, which I believe is much, much better than IE. ;)