Re: Update: Web browsers - a mini-farce (MSIE gives in)

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6.0.2800.1106 on Win 2k Pro (5.00.2195 SP4) does not crash.

    -mike


<gabrield89@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 10/25/2004 08:00:44 AM:

> In-Reply-To: <20041023001154.F23256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >Last but not least, MSIE gives in:
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> >>   Only MSIE appears to be able to consistently handle [*] malformed
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> >>   input well, suggesting this is the only program that underwent
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> >>   rudimentary security QA testing with a similar fuzz utility.
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> >To all those who considered my original post to be a great propaganda
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> >ammunition for praising MSIE, bad news - although it did take a longer
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> >while for it to give up - three hours - (impressive by comparison to
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> >competitors), it eventually did:
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> >  http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ie_die1.html
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> >Tested on 6.0.2800.1106, dies in mshtml.dll. This is a NULL pointer
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> >dereference, so merely a DoS condition, but still an evident flaw in
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> >basic HTML parsing.
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> Testing on Windows 98 running IE 6.0.2800.1106. Nothing happens. IE 
> does not crash. Can anyone else confirm this?