full-disclosure - Internet Explorer 6 DoS Bug

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From: trikaliotis at ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Spiro Trikaliotis)
Subject: Internet Explorer 6 DoS Bug

Hello again,

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:30:46PM +0200, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

> Just tried it on XP SP1 (German) with IE6, and I can confirm that this
> problem exists.
> 
> Interestingly, on a Win 2000 machine with SP 3 (German, too), this problem
> does not exist with IE6.

As some were not able to reproduce this, some more infos:

On XP Pro (SP1), the hour glass appears and IE does not respond to anything.
I have to kill it through CTRL+ALT+DEL, and this kills the explorer, too, so
I don't have a task bar or anything else.

On my W2K machine, it just generates a blank page, nothing more.

Version numbers:

XP Pro: IE Version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633
Updates: SP1; Q324929; Q810847; Q813951; Q813489; Q330994; Q818529
(this one has problems)

W2K: IE Version 6.0.2800.1106
Updates: SP1; Q810847; Q818529; Q330994
(this one does not have the problem)

On the W2K machine, windowsupdate.microsoft.com does not show any IE related
updates, although it obviously has another patchlevel than the IE6 on the XP
machine.

Spiro.

-- 
Spiro R. Trikaliotis, Dipl.-Inform.            
University of Magdeburg
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