Attackers end-run around IE security

Attackers end-run around IE security
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-11-07

The dependence of Internet Explorer on other Windows components has allowed online attackers to work around the shored-up security of Microsoft's latest browser.

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Attackers end-run around IE security 2006-11-07
Anonymous

This has nothing to do with a flaw in IE, but ActiveX. Any vulnerability in Windows that doesn't deal with IE, itself, does an "end-run around IE security"....

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Attackers end-run around IE security 2006-11-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

threatcon still at green?...

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Re: Attackers end-run around IE security 2006-11-09
assurbanipal

better not link threatcon to these bugs, that would make level 1 meaningless.

anyway, now it is 2...

the endless list of bugs plagueing IE, ActiveX and other Micro$oft components confirm the broken design which is in place.

ActiveX, particularly, is so 90-style... they can't make it reliable on t...

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Attackers end-run around IE security 2006-11-23
Anonymous

But fundamentally, this vulnerability has existed for years, and has almost certainly been used for years.

Only now has a security company found the bug, and told Microsoft. Once again hackers, and prople at a (small) security company can easily outsmart the worlds richest company, and show hundre...

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