New exploit to crash IE

May 3, 2003 19:18 · 87 words · 1 minute read

Secunia has a description of a way to crash IE with a trivial bit of HTML. I usually don’t get into security vulnerability news, but this is funny because of how trivial the exploit is. Create a form with an “input type crash” tag and boom, IE crashes. Wonder how long it will be before someone makes an email bot of some kind that sends this in an email message to crash people’s Outlook and Outlook Expresses. Since I use Moz, this had no effect on me…