Most Popular
| Top Stories | Commented | Featured |
Weekend Open Forum: Have you upgraded to Windows 7 yet? What is there to like/not? featured
Tech Tip of The Week: Turn Off your Display Using a Windows Shortcut and More featured
Netflix PS3 streaming arrives tomorrow
Dell's ultra-thin Adamo XPS to ship soon for $1,799
Windows 7 crushed Vista in early launch sales
AMD and PC vendors delay products amid GPU shortage
TechSpot RSSInformation Technology
Multi-version IE exploit announced
It's an exciting day for IE users for sure, with the long-anticipated release of IE finally upon us. The fanfare roar is almost masking a bit of bad news concerning the release. While not exclusive to IE7, Secunia and others have made public a new IE vulnerability. This is not a very serious vulnerability in that it can render your system compromised, but it can result in someone accidentally releasing information they don't want to:
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the "mhtml:" URI handler. This can be exploited to access documents served from another web site.
It affects currently updated machines, and affects both IE6 and IE7, even if you are fully up to date. Disabling active scripting renders you immune, but safe browsing habits will also help.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the "mhtml:" URI handler. This can be exploited to access documents served from another web site.
It affects currently updated machines, and affects both IE6 and IE7, even if you are fully up to date. Disabling active scripting renders you immune, but safe browsing habits will also help.
User Comments (1)
Post a comment| wolfram on October 19, 2006 12:15 PM | Perhaps I will stay with Firefox, and Firefox 2.0... No IE7 or IE6 for me...
|
