Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered

An anonymous reader writes "Several flaws have been uncovered by security firm eEye in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The flaws allow remote compromise of computers running Windows Operating Systems and affect IE, Outlook and possibly other MS software. With the next MS Windows security bulletin release scheduled for June 14, 2005 news sources are reporting that in comparison with the Mozilla Foundation's prompt fix for the recently reported Mozilla 1.0.3 vulnerabilities MS appear to be leaving a large window for the possible malicious exploitation of these flaws."

Comments

Thanks Microsoft!

[Anonymous Coward]

I know some people around the Mozilla camp were a bit afraid of how the media would cover their recent security problems. But, once again, Microsoft's really come through by offering problems of their own to take the spotlight off Firefox.

Re:Thanks Microsoft!

[wfberg]

Browsers are like cheerleaders. They're popular, and they might say they use protection, but you'd better know they get around.

Dupe?

[Kohath]

Is this story a dupe?

I could swear I read about security problems in MSIE before...

Re:Dupe?

[HermanAB]

No, it is all the people that are still using MSIE that are duped.

But thats not fair!

[Anonymous Coward]

People taking advantage of Microsoft's upgrade release cycle to discover security flaws when there's a month to go to the next upgrade!

I hereby demand that everyone only look for security flaws the week before the scheduled security update so that Microsoft can continue to claim it patches all their flaws in a timely manner!

Good for bidness

[yofal]

There's no rush cause we've got something to sell!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/onecare/default.m spx

Re:Great..

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

IE lite? You mean less features than IE already has? I think that's called telnet isn't it?

Poor choice of slogan

[rokzy]

who came up with the clever design idea of making eEye's slogan "Vulnerabilty Is Over" and then pasting it at the bottom of each vulnerability report as if it's a status message?

reminds me of the Simpsons scene where someone is reporting a crime via a radio and says "over" at the end of the transmission. then Wiggum says "thank god that's over". karma for the first person to find the quote, but I only have the real kind not the /. stuff.

Re:IE is not a Browser

[Tibor the Hun]

Go easy on him, he must be new around here.