Re: Where is the notificiation about IE zero day vulnerablity?

From: Imhotep (imhotep_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:19:26 -0500

Karl Levinson, mvp wrote:

>
> "Imhotep" <imhotep@nospam.com> wrote in message news:UMOdnZ1YU8r-2BfeRVn-
>
>> Maybe maybe not. Maybe all you can do with the javascript hole is DOS the
>> other browsers (basically causing Firfox to crash but, not allow remote
>> access)...
>
> "All you can do?" So you're rating this as a low severity vulnerability?
> But you attack Microsoft for supposedly doing the same?

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/20783

>From that page
"It is reported that this vulnerability could be exploited to cause a
denial of service on Firefox and Opera Web browsers, but remote code
execution is not possible."

I certainly could take my web browser crashing over a remote code execution
from a web site...but that is just me; call me crazy.

Imhotep

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