[LINK] Internet Explorer 7: Less then 24 hours passed an a vulnerability is found
Kim Holburn
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Fri Oct 20 08:59:03 AEST 2006
And a six month old vulnerability no less:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22477/
> Secunia has confirmed the vulnerability on a fully patched system
> with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. Other
> versions may also be affected.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35210
> An exasperated Thomas Kristensen, CTO of Secunnia says, "It is the
> half-year old information disclosure vulnerability which allows
> malicious sites to sneak on the content of other sites which hasn't
> been patched in the brand new IE7 release."
>
> 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, the
> firm notes,
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