MSIE Uber-patch Of The Month · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 16, 2002 @05:50AM from the windstorm-'97 dept.

mkraft writes "Microsoft released another security patch for Internet Explorer to fix 6 'new' vulnerabilities. Info on the patch can be obtained via download or Windows Update. Not sure what 6 things the patch fixed, but I'm assuming they fixed 6 of the 14 known exploits listed at http://jscript.dk/unpatched/" Maybe not even all six -- the maintainer of the above URL claims in a post to Bugtraq that Microsoft got some facts wrong and "patched a symptom" of one of the vulnerabilities, "not its root cause," and that IE5 and IE5.5 remain unpatched with the same "Critical" vulnerability. Also, please compare to previous MSIE Uber-Patches Of The Month: December 2001, 3+? holes in IE; March 2002, 2+? holes in IE; April 2002, 2+? holes in Mac IE.

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Netscape not secure by Peridriga · 2002-05-16 06:02 · Score: 2, Offtopic

What about this?

Netscape isn't secure either. A well written web page can read and capture local files.

Micro$oft, although they write their fair share, isn't the only company that writes bad code.