bugtraq - Re: Update: Web browsers - a mini-farce (MSIE gives in)

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:09:55 -0700
From: MCMuir@...output.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Update: Web browsers - a mini-farce (MSIE gives in)


6.0.2800.1106 on Win 2k Pro (5.00.2195 SP4) does not crash.

    -mike


<gabrield89@...mail.com> wrote on 10/25/2004 08:00:44 AM:

> In-Reply-To: <20041023001154.F23256@...adens.coredump.cx>
> 
> >
> 
> >Last but not least, MSIE gives in:
> 
> >
> 
> >>   Only MSIE appears to be able to consistently handle [*] malformed
> 
> >>   input well, suggesting this is the only program that underwent
> 
> >>   rudimentary security QA testing with a similar fuzz utility.
> 
> >
> 
> >To all those who considered my original post to be a great propaganda
> 
> >ammunition for praising MSIE, bad news - although it did take a longer
> 
> >while for it to give up - three hours - (impressive by comparison to
> 
> >competitors), it eventually did:
> 
> >
> 
> >  http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ie_die1.html
> 
> >
> 
> >Tested on 6.0.2800.1106, dies in mshtml.dll. This is a NULL pointer
> 
> >dereference, so merely a DoS condition, but still an evident flaw in
> 
> >basic HTML parsing.
> 
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Testing on Windows 98 running IE 6.0.2800.1106. Nothing happens. IE 
> does not crash. Can anyone else confirm this?