[32303] in bugtraq
RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (white colin john)
Wed Nov 5 18:57:46 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:43:37 -0600 (CST)
From: white colin john <cjwhite1@ehlnx13.ews.uiuc.edu>
To: Thor Larholm <thor@pivx.com>
Cc: Liu Die Yu <liudieyuinchina@yahoo.com.cn>, <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Thor Larholm wrote:
> This post raises an interesting question. Is our goal to find new
> vulnerabilities and attack vectors to help secure users and critical
> infrastructures, or is our goal to ease exploitation of existing
> vulnerabilities?
If there's no proof-of-concept that shows current bugs can be combined
into an exploit, is there any pressure on microsoft to patch the bugs?