Valhalla Legends Forums Archive | General Discussion | Highly stupid IE vulnerability

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Yoni
Found on Slashdot. Not sure whether this should go in the Fun Forum or here, but I put it here anyway.

The following HTML crashes "almost every version of IE past 4.0":

[code]<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>[/code]
Note that there is nothing special involved, no scripts, just plain HTML.
Expect a patch in a few days.
May 3, 2003, 12:18 PM
Thing
Oh My God! That is just too damn funny.

https://davnit.net/bnet/vL/crash.html
May 3, 2003, 1:12 PM
iago
eew
May 3, 2003, 4:19 PM
tA-Kane
Doesn't crash my IE on my Mac... ;D :P
May 3, 2003, 7:14 PM
Invert
That is funny.
May 3, 2003, 7:15 PM
Yoni
[quote author=tA-Kane link=board=2;threadid=1221;start=0#msg9064 date=1051989286]
Doesn't crash my IE on my Mac... ;D :P
[/quote]Haha... That's almost ironic.
May 3, 2003, 10:47 PM
Etheran
it gets worse, windows explorer in winxp crashes when you click on it and it tries to preview it on the side!!!!!
May 4, 2003, 3:42 AM
Yoni
Well, yes, it's a bug in the HTML renderer.
Anything that uses the HTML renderer and causes it to parse <input type someword> crashes.
May 4, 2003, 3:46 AM
Arta
lmao, that's just funniness.
May 5, 2003, 5:46 PM
Zakath
Haha...ph33r Opera not crashing when it views it! ;D
May 5, 2003, 7:59 PM
Grok
Naturally, it did not escape your notice that "IE" is not spelled O-p-e-r-a.
May 5, 2003, 10:04 PM
Zakath
Oh, come on Grok. You know me better than that. I was merely using this topic as an excuse to plug my web browser, which I believe is much, much better than IE. ;)
May 5, 2003, 11:55 PM

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