Highly stupid IE vulnerability

Yoni · 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":

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<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.

Thing · May 03, 2003, 08:12 AM

Oh My God! That is just too damn funny.

http://forum.valhallalegends.com/crash.html

iago · May 03, 2003, 11:19 AM

eew

tA-Kane · May 03, 2003, 02:14 PM

Doesn't crash my IE on my Mac...

Invert · May 03, 2003, 02:15 PM

That is funny.

Yoni · 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...

Haha... That's almost ironic.

Etheran · 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!!!!!

Yoni · 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.

Arta · May 05, 2003, 12:46 PM

lmao, that's just funniness.

Zakath · May 05, 2003, 02:59 PM

Haha...ph33r Opera not crashing when it views it!

Grok · May 05, 2003, 05:04 PM

Naturally, it did not escape your notice that "IE" is not spelled O-p-e-r-a.

Zakath · 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.