Major IE8 Flaw Makes “Safe” Sites Unsafe

kdawson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:32:00 +0000

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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Major IE8 Flaw Makes “Safe” Sites Unsafe