Re: CRIME NIPC Daily Report 16 May 02

From: Seth Arnold (sarnold@private)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 09:17:29 PDT

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    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
    
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