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Re: Update: Web browsers - a mini-farce (MSIE gives in)



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>Last but not least, MSIE gives in:
>
>>   Only MSIE appears to be able to consistently handle [*] malformed
>>   input well, suggesting this is the only program that underwent
>>   rudimentary security QA testing with a similar fuzz utility.
>
>To all those who considered my original post to be a great propaganda
>ammunition for praising MSIE, bad news - although it did take a longer
>while for it to give up - three hours - (impressive by comparison to
>competitors), it eventually did:
>
>  http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ie_die1.html
>
>Tested on 6.0.2800.1106, dies in mshtml.dll. This is a NULL pointer
>dereference, so merely a DoS condition, but still an evident flaw in
>basic HTML parsing.
>

Testing on Windows 98 running IE 6.0.2800.1106. Nothing happens. IE does not 
crash. Can anyone else confirm this?