full-disclosure - IE6 - Crash via DOS device

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From: dksaarth at unix.za.net (Richard Spiers)
Subject: IE6 - Crash via DOS device

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "morning_wood" <se_cur_ity@...mail.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] IE6 - Crash via DOS device


> Oct 30, 2003
> Donnie Werner
> morning_wood@...loitlabs.com
> 
> I thought these bugs in Internet Explorer 6 had been fixed...
> 
> all of these make use of a local call to a
> legacy DOS device, example
> ( file:///AUX ) as a link, called in an iframe ( XSS ) or used as an IMG
> tag.
> I tested,  "CON", "PRN", "AUX", "COMx", "LPTx", "CLOCK$" and "NUL"
> only AUX and COM1 caused a lockup of Internet Explorer 6

Not on my side. None of those links crashed my browser