Gaping holes exposed in fully-patched IE 7, Firefox

Posted on the June 5th, 2007 under Editorial by digg

Polish hacker Michal Zalewski has ratcheted up his ongoing assault on Web browser security models, releasing details on serious flaws in fully patched versions of IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox 2.0…

I don’t know what to say…this is huge! This is a very large, easy to exploit vulnerability that exposes a site’s cookies to any malicious web site on the net.

A harmless proof-of-concept exploit can be found here.

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ierace/

Wait…i’m getting a vision…yes, it’s coming clearer…a Microsoft Security Patch is in your future.