** HEAD'S UP ** Microsoft Windows Image Rendering Denial of Service Vulnerability

Greeting's

A Vulnerability has been found in Micosoft windows XP (home/pro) which can be exploited for a DoS attack.

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The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the image rendering for overly large images. This can e.g. be exploited to crash a vulnerable system when a user views an image with overly large HTML size attributes in e.g. Internet Explorer.

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The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched Microsoft Windows XP SP2 system

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SOLUTION :

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Do not view HTML content from untrusted sources while running critical applications.

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More can be found at :

http://secunia.com/advisories/15064/


No advisory has been released by microsoft.

hmmm, and yet another reason to switch to firefox

Looks like its part of XP, not IE that is causing the problem, so firefox would be vulnerable too.

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hmmm, and yet another reason to switch to firefox

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>RANT<

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FRIGGIN SICK OF THIS ANSWER!!!!!!

>RANT OVER<


There I feel better now.... ;)

MLF

zENGER....excellent points once again.

(Have to spread out them greenies)