[4659] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Big IE hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Piers Cawley)
Wed Mar 5 06:57:35 1997
To: Eli Beker <beker@ibm.net.il>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, pdcawley@gunnar.aladdin.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 1997 15:11:54 +0200."
<Pine.A32.3.95-heb-2.07.970304150544.56509F-100000@rex.ibm.net.il>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 10:16:39 +0000
From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@aladdin.net>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Daniel Rinehart wrote:
>
> > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,8447,00.html
> >
> Try this one:
>
> http://www.cybersnot.com/iebug.html
>
> According to Microsoft :
>
> Any users running Internet Explorer 3.0 or 3.01 for Windows 95 and Windows
> NT could potentially be at risk. However, there is only one Web
> site that illustrates the issue that we know about, and it is only for
> demonstration purposes. ^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Furthermore, we have not had any customer reports of this to date, and a
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> webmaster would have to create malicious code in order to enable the
> threat.
Good old Microsoft. We have a problem, but it's only a problem if there are
bad people in the world, so don't worry.
Yeah, right.
What do they smoke at Redmond I ask myself.
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Piers Cawley
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