Crashing Internet Exporer
This
article at www.theinquirer.net calls this Internet
Explorer's dumbest bug - one single line of HTML code
that can cause Internet Explorer to crash, and crash
hard.
Here's the HTML:
<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>
The problem is with the middle line of code; it's a
malformed HTML input statement. According to
the
BugTraq report, feeding this page to anything that uses
SHLWAPI.DLL to render web code on a Windows box (programs
like Internet Explorer, Outlook, FrontPage, etc)
causes the application to explode with errors like this:
Unhandled exception in iexplore.exe (SHLWAPI.DLL):
0xC0000005: Access Violation
It's not a security risk and it doesn't do any damage;
it's just a really, really stupid coding error.
So, then - want to explode your Explorer? Click on the
detonate link below and I'll feed you the oddball
HTML so that you can see for yourself how it works.
If you're using Microsoft software
to get online, you may get blown clear off the network
when your IE session dies. Also, if you've got a bunch of
other browser windows open when you do this, they'll likely
die too. I am not responsible for any consequences on your
end that result from your clicking this link.
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