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Microsoft Windows Explorer for Windows XP has been reported to be prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly validate user-supplied input via the 'shell:' command. The 'shell:' command is a parameter that a user can specify when including a URI in an HTML tag. This command allows the HTML script to potentially execute any program specified after the 'shell:' command. Successful exploitation of this issue would cause the affected application to crash, denying service to legitimate users.

Microsoft Windows Explorer for Windows XP has been reported to be prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly validate user-supplied input via the 'shell:' command. The 'shell:' command is a parameter that a user can specify when including a URI in an HTML tag. This command allows the HTML script to potentially execute any program specified after the 'shell:' command. Successful exploitation of this issue would cause the affected application to crash, denying service to legitimate users.