Re: IE and Secunia SA12889

[Steve Brukbacher <sab2 () UWM EDU>]

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.


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Steve Brukbacher
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee I&MT IT Support
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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.
>
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>   Gary Dobbins, CISSP -- Director, Information Security
>   University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technologies
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