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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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.

	-hpa
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