Friday, October 20, 2006
IE 7 vulnerability revealed
Posted by Steve Malone at 10:59AM, Friday 20th October 2006
Within hours of the final release of Internet Explorer 7, the first vulnerability has emerged. Even more embarrassing for Microsoft is that the flaw is one that has been known about for months.
The vulnerability is due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the 'mhtml:' URI handler. This can be used by a hacker to run an executable file from a remote server. Knowledge of this exploit goes back as far as November 2003. It was known to affect IE6 as far back as last April and, as far as is known, remains an unpatched bug.
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Within hours of the final release of Internet Explorer 7, the first vulnerability has emerged. Even more embarrassing for Microsoft is that the flaw is one that has been known about for months.
The vulnerability is due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the 'mhtml:' URI handler. This can be used by a hacker to run an executable file from a remote server. Knowledge of this exploit goes back as far as November 2003. It was known to affect IE6 as far back as last April and, as far as is known, remains an unpatched bug.
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