CVE-2004-2434 - Self convicted Glazeddonut

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a link with ::\ (colon colon left brace) which triggers a null dereference when the user attempts to save the link using \Save As\ and Internet Explorer prepares an error message with an attacker-controlled format string.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-06/0397.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-06/0428.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/1126.html http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5IP020KDPU.html http://www.osvdb.org/8335 http://securitytracker.com/id?1010491 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16420