[NT] IE Denial of Service (Bad IMG Tag)

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Date: 12/14/01


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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:51:58 +0100 (CET)

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  IE Denial of Service (Bad IMG Tag)
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SUMMARY

Internet Explorer suffers from a denial-of-service vulnerability that
allows a web site administrator to cause the client to stop responding to
legitimate web requests.

DETAILS

An image tag with garbage characters in a particular order can cause the
Internet Explorer to hang, causing a denial of service attack.

The problematic tag is as follows (Note that the 'I' of IMG have been
replaced, to prevent the vulnerability from occurring):
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:zeno@cgisecurity.net> zeno,
and <mailto:screff@routing.org> Jeff Sampson .

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