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

Subject: Re: Update: Web browsers - a mini-farce (MSIE gives in)
Date: 25 Oct 2004 15:00:44 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20041023001154.F23256@dekadens.coredump.cx>


Last but not least, MSIE gives in:

  Only MSIE appears to be able to consistently handle [*] malformed
  input well, suggesting this is the only program that underwent
  rudimentary security QA testing with a similar fuzz utility.

To all those who considered my original post to be a great propaganda
ammunition for praising MSIE, bad news - although it did take a longer
while for it to give up - three hours - (impressive by comparison to
competitors), it eventually did:

 http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ie_die1.html

Tested on 6.0.2800.1106, dies in mshtml.dll. This is a NULL pointer
dereference, so merely a DoS condition, but still an evident flaw in
basic HTML parsing.


Testing on Windows 98 running IE 6.0.2800.1106. Nothing happens. IE does not 
crash. Can anyone else confirm this?

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