[Full-Disclosure] IE6 crash bug; call thru unintialized pointer

KF dotslash at snosoft.com
Mon Jul 7 16:09:49 BST 2003


Crashes mine...

Instruction at 0x63599ef9 refrenced memory at 0x0000006d memory could 
not be read...

IE 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2-030422-1633

-KF


Richard M. Smith wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I ran across an IE6 crash bug while developing a JavaScript
>debugger.  Here's a demo page that shows the problem:
>
>http://www.computerbytesman.com/js/crash/crash.htm
>
>What makes the bug interesting, is that the crash is caused by IE
>dereferencing an uninititalized pointer.  These dereferences happen in
>random places in the code.  The most interesting location I saw was in a
>CALL instruction.  
>
>I don't really have the time to determine if the bug is exploitable to
>run code.
>
>The bug may also be present in earlier versions of IE.
>
>This is one of many crash bugs in IE that are present in the fringes of
>the IE DOM.  All the other bugs that I've found so far are just null
>pointer dereferences which I think are harmless.
>
>Richard M. Smith
>http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
>
>PS.  On a few machines, the demo must be reload a few times for a crash
>to occur.
>
>
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