Confirmed on XP SP2, latest greatest, etc. "Unhandled exception at 0x7dcfa61d in iexplore.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x002911d8." I had to shut all (Windows) explorer and Internet Explorer windows first though. cheers, Jamie On 17/03/06, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Daniel Bonekeeper wrote: > > > BTW, tested the POC on MSIE (File Version = 6.00.2900.2180 > > (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)) with mshtml.dll (6.00.2900.2802 > > (xpsp_sp2_gdr.051123-1230)) and it didn't worked. > > Daniel followed up with me in private and confirmed that the PoC *did* > work for him when he followed certain additional instructions: because the > attack depends on memory layout and usage, to get consistent results, be > sure to close *all* MSIE windows, then go to Start -> Run... and type: > > iexplore http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/iedie.html > > That should crash the browser immediately, because there are no other > buffers nearby to "absorb" the initial fencepost. Still, if no dice, try > hitting 'Reload' a couple of times. > > /mz >
