Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) JPEG Rendering Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service

Several vulnerabilities were reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) in the parsing of images. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.  A remote user can create a specially crafted JPEG image that, when loaded by IE, will cause the target user's browser to crash.

Some demonstration exploit examples are available at http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/crash/

The report indicates that in some cases, the image rendering code makes unbounded, user-affected memory accesses. This may allow for code execution, but that was not confirmed in the report.

Michal Zalewski reported this vulnerability.
 
Impact:  A remote user can cause the target user's browser to crash.

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Also in Securiteam entitled Internet Explorer's Image Decoder Multiple Vulnerabilities

Published Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:43 AM by donna