Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Microsoft IE6 is crashing with Linux 2.4.X | Date | 17 Nov 2001 12:20:08 -0800 |
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Followup to: <000001c16e6c$c29061d0$f5976dcf@nwfs> By author: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > According to some folks who responded to this, IE6 is just plain broken. I > apologize for the lateness of responding, but my Linux server crashed with > sendmail spawing thread after thread and my /var/spool/mqueue directory > filled to bursting with corrupted mail headers. IE6 got into some kind of > braindead loop where it started flooding sendmail with tons of bogus (and > garbage) mail headers. > > It's clearly a piece of sh_t browser. This latest release qualifies as a > computer virus. It's much more destructive that lion every dreamed of > being. >
Even so, it's a server problem -- replace your IE6 (l)user with a malicious hacker, and you still have a problem...
Microsoft likes to discard vulnerabilities by "no standard client would do this." No, and no "standard visitor" would apply a crowbar to your patio door, either.
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