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Default Re: Malformed page crashes MSIE 6 100% of the time - 10-03-2005 , 02:03 AM






On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:31:20 -0400, Gérard Talbot
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The malformed HTML code involve <font> and vertical-align like this:

div style="vertical-align: top;"
p>First <font size="4">Paragraph</p
p>Second </font> Paragraph</p
/div

Everything was nicely reported and clearly explained in october 2003 and
the bug is still reproducible, 100% of the time.

Page where this bug is explained:

http://jehiah.com/archive/ie-vertica...-vulnerability

Proof of concept:

http://www.jehiah.com/sandbox/vertical-align-top.htm
Yes, I double click on the link, and boom

Typical microsoft responsiveness.


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