Microsoft Re-Re-Releases IE Patch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 12, 2006 @09:55AM from the this-time-for-sure dept.

uniquebydegrees writes, "InfoWorld reports that on Tuesday Microsoft quietly released the second update for MS06-042. This is the cumulative patch for IE that actually introduced a new security hole into systems that applied the update. Microsoft re-released the patch back in August, but it now turns out that the updated patch had yet another vulnerability similar to the first, once again discovered by folks at eEye Digital Security. As with the previous hole, it concerned the handling of long URLs from web sites using HTTP 1.1 with compression."

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Re:Huh by vertinox · 2006-09-12 11:13 · Score: 2, Insightful

But less people use Firefox, so they don't write as many exploits for it.

But more webservers use Apache over IIS, so why are there more eploits for IIS?

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