HTML Page Crashes Windows

Posted by Martin in Security  Tags: ,

18

Apr



Ok this seems to be serious. If you open a webpage that contains a certain html code your windows will crash. The html is looking like this, its basically just one line of code that displays an image with the width=”9999999″ and heigth=”9999999″.

So, only a few lines of code and it crashes your system, the image does not have to be that large btw. Only working with IE it seems,Opera does not have problems with it, some firefox versions seem to slow down. Thanks to groupsrv.com forum for the information. Another reason for switching to Opera or Firefox.


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mick riley says:

“Another reason for switching to Opera or Firefox.”
or LINUX.
:)

raky says:

this is a very old one…

Jeeth says:

Tried this one out ().
On my winxp sp2
Opera: no problems
IE6: does not render page
firefox 1.5.0.2:partially renders, but on refresh crashes windows :(

Digitarius says:

Or… an argument for Vista? I just tried it on my Vista Home Premium SP1 machine. IE7 didn’t BSOD my system.

Digitarius says:

Apologies if this double-posts.
Tried this twice now:
XP SP3 laptop (With only 512 Megs of RAM, I might add)
Vista Home Premium SP1

… And it didn’t crash either. I’m sure it’s likely been fixed since 2005. It strikes me as one of those things that people like to bash Windows with, even if it isn’t true (Or, not true any more).

It’s worth noting that this problem would have applied to Internet Explorer 6. 7 Was released in ‘06, after this was posted. So, sure, the moral of the story: Old software and unpatched systems may have exploits or other vulnerabilities.

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