Three New IE6 Vulnerabilities

Several new vulnerabilities have been announced in Internet Explorer 6, which could cause the popular Microsoft browser to crash.

The first of these problems concerns a vulnerability on trying to obtain the value pointed to by a null pointer causing the browser to crash.

When creating an empty applet tag prior to any other HTML tag without closing it, Internet Explorer will have a Null Pointer result and, without closing the tag, will crash.

A second problem has been announced, which occurs when trying to enter an infinite loop. This causes Internet Explorer to close and display an "unknown software exception".

Finally, a denial of service problem has been announced when a frame with certain conditions is created and the user clicks on the frame.

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