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Secunia Advisory SA8642Microsoft Shell Light-Weight Utility Library Denial of Service
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Description
A vulnerability identified in a library included in Windows XP and Internet Explorer version 4.0 and newer can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on certain applications. The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference bug in Microsoft Shell Light-Weight Utility Library ("shlwapi.dll"). A malicious person can exploit the vulnerability by constructing a special HTML document, which will crash applications using the vulnerable library. An example was provided in the original advisory: <html> <form> <input type crash> </form> </html> Reportedly, the vulnerability can be exploited to crash the following applications: - Windows Explorer - Internet Explorer - Outlook - Outlook Express - Frontpage NOTE: Other applications may also be affected. Solution Provided and/or discovered by Other references Deep Links Do you have additional information related to this advisory?Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
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