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Major IE8 Flaw Makes "Safe" Sites Unsafe

Posted by kdawson on from the keep-your-scripts-to-yourself dept.

After this weekend's report of a dangerous flaw in IE (which Microsoft confirmed today), intrudere points out an exclusive report in The Register on a new hole in IE8 that could allow an attacker to pull off cross-site scripting attacks on Web sites that ought, by rights, to be safe from XSS. This is according to two anonymous sources, who told El Reg that Microsoft had been notified of the vulnerability a few months ago.

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  1. That seems like a really strange thing to do... by argent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems to me that if the IE team is capable of telling that a combination of features is potentially dangerous, then why would they edit the source of the page to avoid triggering the vulnerability, rather than actually eliminating the vulnerability being attacked?