Greeting's

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

Information :

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

Do not view HTML content from untrusted sources while running critical applications.
More can be found at :

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


No advisory has been released by microsoft.