ActiveX "Hole"

Discussion in 'Serious' started by GreatOldOne, 22 Nov 2002.

  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    "There's a new hole in the slab of security Swiss cheese otherwise known as Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.

    Once again, the hole can be exploited when users visit a malicious website or open HTML mail. And once again the hole allows an attacker to take complete remote control over another computer.

    But this latest hole, which also affects Microsoft's IIS Web server software, has an interesting new twist.

    Even if Microsoft's patch is applied to close the hole, an attacker can easily unpatch the patch.

    The hole is caused by a badly coded ActiveX control."


    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56526,00.html

    Security swiss cheese... :hehe:
     
  2. sinizterguy

    sinizterguy Dark & Sinizter

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    Real nice :rock:
     

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