hackfix-virusnews: IE bugs keep coming
- From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackfix-virusnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:25:01 -0400
IE bugs keep coming
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Posted: 10/07/2003 at 07:41 GMT
Microsoft issued a patch Wednesday for a critical
vulnerability in most versions of Windows that gives
attackers remote control of a user's machine though
Internet Explorer. But if the results of a new survey
are any guide, most users won't install it.
The bug is a buffer overflow in an HTML conversion
library used by a number of Windows programs,
including Internet Explorer, and by extension Outlook
and Outlook Express. To exploit it, an attacker
tricks a victim into visiting a specially-crafted
malicious Web page, or -- a more likely approach --
sends an Outlook user an
HTML-formatted e-mail with the attack code embedded
within.
Read more here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31656.html
=A9 The Register.
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