[Full-Disclosure] New Microsoft Internet Explorer mshtml.dll Denial of Service?

Steve Wray steve.wray at paradise.net.nz
Tue Sep 2 21:04:36 BST 2003


Ok I went there and no crash!
:)
Heres the html that I created to test the principal as
well.

My MSIE is 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633

I only experience the crash when clicking in Outlook 2002.


[snip]
> > Its a mail client issue; doesn't happen if you click on
> > a link from Internet Explorer.
> 
> No, I am very sure that this happens also, if you follow the 
> link inside
> a web page only (without an involving mail client).
> 
> So go to http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html , scroll down and
> click the link that says "Holger Hasselbach has translated several
> issues of Crypto-Gram into German [...]". The error occurs as 
> described
> in my original posting.
> 
> > Your mail headers don't exactly give away your own mail client. 
> > What would it be?
> 
> Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP2 on Windows XP Professional
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Marc Ruef




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