Microsoft Windows shlwapi.dll Malformed HTML Tag Handling Null Pointer DoS

The remote host is running a version of the shlwapi.dll which crashes when processing a malformed HTML form. An attacker may use this flaw to prevent the users of this host from working properly. To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need to send a malformed HTML file to the remote user, either...

Microsoft 'Shlwapi.dll' 6.0.2800.1106 - Malformed HTML Form Tag Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7402/info The 'shlwapi.dll' dynamic link library causes a calling application to fail when it attempts to render certain malformed HTML tags. This appears to be due to an attempt to perform a string comparison where one of the strings is a null pointer. I...