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IE 7.0/8.0b Code Execution 0-Day Released

Posted by kdawson on from the cross-zone-scripting dept.

SecureThroughObscure writes "Security blogger and researcher Nate McFeters blogged about a 0-day exploit affecting IE7 and IE8 beta on XP that was released by noted security researcher Aviv Raff. The flaw is a 'cross-zone scripting' flaw that takes advantage of the fact that printing HTML web pages occurs in the Local Machine Zone in IE rather than in the Internet Zone. Quoting McFeters's post: 'This is currently unpatched and in all of its 0-day glory, so for the time being, beware printing using the "print table of links" option when printing web pages.' McFeters and others will be presenting at Black Hat on the link between cross-site scripting and cross-zone. Rob Carter has been hitting this hard over at his blog, pointing out cross-zone weaknesses in Azureus, uTorrent, and the Eclipse platform."

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  1. Amazing by duplicate-nickname · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't even know that "Print table of links" was an option for printing in IE until today. My guess is that no one actually uses that feature, and this 0-day exploit affects roughly 0 people.

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    1. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're forgetting about another MSIE feature, a TWAIN plugin called "Scan table of links".

  2. Usage by Wowsers · · Score: 5, Funny

    People still use Internet Exploder?

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  3. To view this article on one page... by Thelasko · · Score: 5, Funny

    please select the printable version.

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  4. Re:0-day by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, the term has definitely been bricked.