bugtraq - IE6 SP1 - Click N Crash

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Message-ID: <20050215152129.38866.qmail@web8503.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:21:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: ViPeR <viper31337@...oo.co.in>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: IE6 SP1 - Click N Crash

hi,

Affected Software : Microsoft Internet Explorer
Vulnerability : Remote DOS / Crash
Tested On : MS IE 6.0 SP1, Win2K SP4, [up-to-date]
according to windowsupdate.com

Discovered by : Gregory R. Panakkal

HomePage : http://www.crapware.tk

Details
=======
Pointing a link to the URI -> file://!:\ [replace !
with the character with ascii value for eg:- 0xA0].
Causes IE6-SP1 to crash, the illegal op occuring in
user32.dll. Other special characters are also
possible.

Demo
====
A demonstration is available at the following URL.

http://crapware.lx.ro/junkcode/security/ie-sp1-file-a0-crash.htm

Greetz to
=========
Rakesh Balasunder - r0ck@...y
CK - Saitegog! :)

rgds,
Gregory R. Panakkal 

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