Re: Driver for display goes to a infinite loop by viewing a html!

[Eddie Block <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bipin Gautam wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> View this page:
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/crazy.html
>
> Try scrolling the picture for few seconds...[ don't kill the process] I have 
> tested it on several machines with intel vga. it reboots Winxp with a fetal 
> error because The driver for the display device got stuck in an infinite loop.
>
> ps: I've tested with firefox and IE browser... The exploit isn't triggered via 
> a opera browser. There have been reports, Matrox G400 video card, driver 
> (version 5.82.18.0.) on windows 2000 (sp4) also crashes.
>
> in, http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/crazy.html
> The image itself is not big but the html resizing of it is big.
> <img width=9999999 height=9999999 src="crazy.jpg"
>
>
> regards,
> bipin gautam
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/

Sony Laptop
Pentium 4-M 2.20 GHz
1 GB Ram
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 AGP (LW)
        Driver Date: 11/23/2002
        Driver Version: 6.13.10.6243
Windows XP Professional with SP2 applied

IE: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_SP2_
        BSOD a few seconds after browsing page.
Firefox: 0.9.3
        BSOD a few seconds after browsing page.
Opera: 7.54 build 3865
        No affect at all.  Image renders fine.

Eddie