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One line of html code to crash Winblows
RaZoR1394:
Never gotten XP to crash before??? Well now it should. At least in most cases apparently. :D
There is obviously a very nasty image size bug in Windows (even XP SP2) together with IE, FF or Mozilla. Opera however seems to be immune to this.
Here is the sample code that makes the comp crash.
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CAUTION! THE LINK UNDERNEATH WILL CRASH THE COMP IF YOU USE WINDOWS!
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HERE is a site where they have tried the bug.
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CAUTION! THE LINK ABOVE WILL CRASH THE COMP IF YOU USE WINDOWS!
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If you have disabled "automatically restart" it will show a bluescreen, else it will reboot. I've only got access to Windows via a Vmware virtual machine with a fully updated XP SP2 copy and it gave me a bluescreen after totally locking up the VM.
Well this is totally rediculous. Crashing the computer because of unrealistic image size. HAHHAAHHAHA!
edit: I tried the winboot page on my main Gentoo comp and it just showed a flat green pic. :thumbup:
RaZoR1394:
HERE is the bugreport.
And HERE is a confirmed report at Heise (German).
TB:
Holy crap. That was even worse than the bug!
RaZoR1394:
Yup, also much worse than Sasser and MSblast. Trust me, this will be used in a lot of websites just to f*ck people up.
HERE's a shot I took in vmware.
Microsoft are already releasing 7 security fixes on Tuesday I think. Maybe they won't have time to fix this one.
Orethrius:
Apparently not an issue in XP Pro SP2 running Firefox 1.0.4 - my dad has the laptop out-of-state until Saturday, so I'm stuck running the Beast. Meh, at least it has a tuner card to make up for its shortcomings. :cool:
EDIT: I experienced some slowdown on a P4 2.6HT, but that's about it. No crashes, no BSoDs, no automatic reboots (though that may be because I've had that disabled since Sasser). Is there any particular reason why we're expecting a reasonable benchmark from the lowest common denominator (a $30 Windows OS)?
--- Quote from: toadlife --- I won't be losing any sleep over it.
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Me either.
--- Quote from: toadlife ---My wifes is a GeForce3, and bluescreen references an infinite loop happening with the nvidia driver. I'm wondering if this is nothing bug a bug with Nvidia's drivers.
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I would surmise as much, I'm using the onboard video that came with the mobo, an Asus P4P800-VM (according to Everest, it's an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller, and may I add Myst IV fucking kicks ass on it).
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