[29849] in bugtraq
RE : IE / Outlook / MS SHLWAPI Render - more trivial crash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gervaize Maquard)
Tue Apr 22 17:40:48 2003
From: "Gervaize Maquard" <freestyler@tiscali.fr>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:29:58 +0200
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Original message :
>Hola:
>Well, as it seems that is the Microsoft Crash mounth, let see another
one:
>---------------------------------
><html>
><form>
><input type crash>
></form>
></html>
>---------------------------------
>This will crash IE with the following error:
>"Unhandled exception in iexplore.exe (SHLWAPI.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access
>Violation"
>It's a null pointer overwrite, so it's not easly exploitable...
>This HTML also crash Outlook, Frontpage, and all the Microsoft programs
that >use the shlwapi.dll library to render web code.
>Plain HTML is a dangerous language :)
Added :
It also seems to crash explorer.exe when the .html file containing the
code is copied into any folder !!
It may work since windows is trying to create a view in Windows
explorer. Indeed, it doesn't work when the file is copied in the
desktop.
Tested on Windows XP with Office XP.
