Malformed page crashes MSIE 6 100% of the time

Gérard Talbot

About a month ago, I've reported a crash bug at a wiki webpage where
developers of MSIE 7 can read feedback from developers. The strange
thing is that a particular malformed webpage can crash MSIE 6 SV1 (on XP
Pro SP2) with all the updates, patches, security patches, etc..
even/despite the latest August 2005. It's been now more than 1 month
that I reported that crash and nothing happened.

Here's my question: Do you crash like I do while viewing that page with
MSIE 6 with all the patches?

The malformed HTML code involve <font> and vertical-align like this:

<div style="vertical-align: top;">
<p>First <font size="4">Paragr aph</p>
<p>Second </font> Paragraph</p>
</div>

Everything was nicely reported and clearly explained in october 2003 and
the bug is still reproducible, 100% of the time.

Page where this bug is explained:

http://jehiah.com/archive/ie-vertica...-vulnerability

Proof of concept:

http://www.jehiah.com/sandbox/vertical-align-top.htm

Gérard
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Sep 29 '05 #1

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RobG

Gérard Talbot wrote:

About a month ago, I've reported a crash bug at a wiki webpage where
developers of MSIE 7 can read feedback from developers. The strange
thing is that a particular malformed webpage can crash MSIE 6 SV1 (on XP
Pro SP2) with all the updates, patches, security patches, etc..
even/despite the latest August 2005. It's been now more than 1 month
that I reported that crash and nothing happened.

Here's my question: Do you crash like I do while viewing that page with
MSIE 6 with all the patches?

Works (crashes) for me:

IE 6.0.2800.1106.x psp2.050301-1526
[...]

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Rob

Oct 3 '05 #2

twaddle

Gérard Talbot wrote:

Here's my question: Do you crash like I do while viewing
that page with MSIE 6 with all the patches? http://www.jehiah.com/sandbox/vertical-align-top.htm

Confirmed here too. IE6/Win2K/all patches.

It appears the crash only occurs when IE is in Standards Mode. Did you
notice this too?

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twaddle

Oct 3 '05 #3

James A. Donald

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:31:20 -0400, GÃ©rard Talbot

The malformed HTML code involve <font> and vertical-align like this:

<div style="vertical-align: top;">
<p>First <font size="4">Paragr aph</p>
<p>Second </font> Paragraph</p>
</div>

Everything was nicely reported and clearly explained in october 2003 and
the bug is still reproducible, 100% of the time.

Page where this bug is explained:

http://jehiah.com/archive/ie-vertica...-vulnerability

Proof of concept:

http://www.jehiah.com/sandbox/vertical-align-top.htm

Yes, I double click on the link, and boom

Typical microsoft responsiveness.
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Oct 3 '05 #4

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