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Re: IE and Secunia SA12889
From: Steve Brukbacher <sab2 () UWM EDU>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:04:25 -0600
Sorry I'm just getting to this now..... We posted an alert on this yesterday, which can be viewed here: https://security.uwm.edu See the "Alerts" section on the left This was at least partially fixed by yesterdays round of patches which I'll be updating on our alert shortly...: Patch for http://secunia.com/advisories/12889 (current security.uwm.edu alert) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-001.mspx Overall, we're encouraging people to leave IE in favor of Firefox. -- Steve Brukbacher University of Wisconsin Milwaukee I&MT IT Support Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/IMT/help/ UWM Computer Security Web Site www.security.uwm.edu Phone: 414.229.2224 Fax: 414.229.4087 Bolton 214, 3210 N.Maryland Av Milwaukee, WI 53211 Gary Dobbins wrote:
Has anyone had unusual concerns [more than usual] about the IE vulnerability recently described on Secunia: http://secunia.com/advisories/12889/ "Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system, conduct cross-site/zone scripting and bypass a security feature in Microsoft Windows XP SP2. " Some have indicated it's exploitable without user intervention upon arriving at a hostile site. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Dobbins, CISSP -- Director, Information Security University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technologies ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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Current thread:
- IE and Secunia SA12889 Gary Dobbins (Jan 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IE and Secunia SA12889 Gary Flynn (Jan 11)
- Re: IE and Secunia SA12889 Jeff Giacobbe (Jan 11)
- Re: IE and Secunia SA12889 Steve Brukbacher (Jan 12)