[36090] in bugtraq
Re: Driver for display goes to a infinite loop by viewing a html!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eddie Block)
Wed Aug 11 17:42:50 2004
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:18:42 -0500
From: Eddie Block <lists@blocked.org>
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Cc: Bipin Gautam <visitbipin@hotmail.com>
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Bipin Gautam wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> View this page:
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/crazy.html
>
> Try scrolling the picture for few seconds...[ don't kill the process] I have tested it on several machines with intel vga. it reboots Winxp with a fetal error because The driver for the display device got stuck in an infinite loop.
>
> ps: I've tested with firefox and IE browser... The exploit isn't triggered via a opera browser. There have been reports, Matrox G400 video card, driver (version 5.82.18.0.) on windows 2000 (sp4) also crashes.
>
> in, http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/crazy.html
> The image itself is not big but the html resizing of it is big.
> <img width=9999999 height=9999999 src="crazy.jpg"
>
>
> regards,
> bipin gautam
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/
>
>
Sony Laptop
Pentium 4-M 2.20 GHz
1 GB Ram
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 AGP (LW)
Driver Date: 11/23/2002
Driver Version: 6.13.10.6243
Windows XP Professional with SP2 applied
IE: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_SP2_
BSOD a few seconds after browsing page.
Firefox: 0.9.3
BSOD a few seconds after browsing page.
Opera: 7.54 build 3865
No affect at all. Image renders fine.
Eddie
