Too Funny For Words :)

[denny]

This page will crash Internet Explorer. This is quite possibly the single most pathetic Microsoft bug I've seen yet  :)

(yoinked from olithered's journal)

Update: apparently this will also crash Outlook and anything else which uses that library to render HTML content. I feel a .sig coming on ;)

Comments

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I sense a patch... ;)

[sartori666.livejournal.com]

Hey you're right. LOL.

Now I can't get back into anything. I'll have to wait till tomorrow.

[zotz]

It's not a bug, though, is it? It's clearly been implemented clearly and purposefully by someone, for reasons that presumably seemed to make sense at the time.

Reminds me a bit of the BBC Micro's undocumented "on error crash" statement.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

The guy who posted it to Security Focus says it's a fucked up pointer - which doesn't sound like a deliberate behaviour to me:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/319360/2003-04-20/2003-04-26/0

[zotz]

Well, assuming that it's specifically recognising the keyword "crash", doesn't it strike you as odd that it does exactly that, in a relatively non-exploitable way?

Given that it's doing exactly what it's told to do, I'd guess that it's deliberate.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Mine doesn't use the word 'crash' - it uses 'microsoftsucks'. You can put anything as the last symbol apparently.

[olithered.livejournal.com]

The word isn't important. Anything invalid will work...

[zotz]

Fair enough. That wasn't mentioned in the articles I read, for some reason, and as we don't have IE in the house any more, I haven't tested it.

[denari.livejournal.com]

Doesn't crash mine, just a 404 not found...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Hrm... can you see http://btsuck.org/ ?

Some people seem to have DNS issues with that address... if that doesn't work for you, try http://www.btsuck.org/lmao.html instead.

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Opera gets confused too - it showed the page and then closed...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

That's pretty odd, such a daft bug in two unrelated browsers. Little bit of code theft around there, perhaps? I wonder in which direction  :)

[olithered.livejournal.com]

what version?
6.05 seemed to cope ok for me...

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Three point six two.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Uh, what is it supposed to be? Opera opens it, but it's just a text box.... unless text boxes now crash M$ crap.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

It's a short piece of mildly invalid HTML, that Mozilla/Opera/etc render as a text input box, and IE crashes at the sight of. Have a look at the source code for the page, it's that simple.

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[naath.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Well I had the sense not to click on it. *smug*
*bounces about in happy little world of broadband that still works. FSVO "works"*

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Well I had the sense not to click on it. *smug*

Ditto. When people tell you not to click on things, there's generally a reason...

Such as it doing bad things to computers that are not yours and then needing major explaining away to scary sysadmin types...

Yes. Anyway.

[duncanneko.livejournal.com]

*looks at source code*
*rolls around laughing*

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. And I thought the Infinite Popups was bad *grins*

a true MS classic, that...

[rathenar.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, how does the infinite popup thing work?

[barakta]

Good innit!

I tested it out on my windoze install which has IE and OE. I still use IE in windows cos using moz for email and browsing chews up all my RAM. It killed OE nicely tho. ;)

I wonder if even posting that link is technically covered under the misuse of computers act - evil piece of legislation if i ever saw one. Still cool tho.

As tempting as it is to send it to my family to demonstrate the stupidity of Microsoft Products I'd only end up having to fix the mess or something. Apparently iot kills anything which uses the MS HTML rendering engine!!!

Whoopsie daisy.... Beats the latest OSX bug which kernel panicked my mac while using a usb hub!

Natalya