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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Microsoft says that McAfee 'inaccurate, inflammatory'
Posted by David Lawsky, Reuters at 11:03AM, Friday 20th October 2006
McAfee's criticisms of Microsoft's attitude to releasing Vista kernel information rebuffed by Redmond.
Microsoft said on Friday that security software firm McAfee's criticism of its provision of security information on the new Vista operating system was "inaccurate and inflammatory."
McAfee is one of several software security firms concerned that Microsoft will wait too long to give information they need to protect customers using Microsoft's new Windows 64-bit Vista.
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McAfee's criticisms of Microsoft's attitude to releasing Vista kernel information rebuffed by Redmond.
Microsoft said on Friday that security software firm McAfee's criticism of its provision of security information on the new Vista operating system was "inaccurate and inflammatory."
McAfee is one of several software security firms concerned that Microsoft will wait too long to give information they need to protect customers using Microsoft's new Windows 64-bit Vista.
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