On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:17:41AM -0700, NIPC (by way of George Heuston) wrote: > Microsoft urges Windows users to download a fix for Internet Explorer. > Microsoft announced that six new flaws have been found in its Web > browser. Three of the flaws are considered critical and one of them; a > cross-site scripting error, affects only Internet Explorer 6.0 and > would allow an attacker or a worm to run a program on the victim's > computer. The 2MB download includes all the old repairs for Internet > Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0, plus patches for the latest six holes. > (CNET News.com 13 May) It has been reported on bugtraq that earlier versions of IE are affected as well, and the classification of one of the problems as "cross-site scripting" appears to be incorrect as well. More details at http://www.securityfocus.com/ Cheers -- http://www.immunix.org/
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