full-disclosure - How big is the danger of IE?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk (Randal, Phil)
Subject: How big is the danger of IE?

full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com wrote:
> On Thu, July 8, 2004 8:07 am, Sapheriel said:
>> i didn't know IE also displays e-mails and power point files.
> 
> It doesn't. But the IE rendering engine (read: dlls) are used
> by most MS programs to render HTML, which can be embedded
> into almost any document type. Pretty much any IE exploit
> will work in any of these programs as well. Isn't the whole
> "integrated Microsoft suite" a wonderful concept?
> 
> -Eric

As those of us who upgraded to IE6SP1 without installing the
corresponding Outlook Express (mea culpa!) found to our chagrin when
MS04-013 came out, just because you don't use something doesn't mean
it's not a security risk.

Cheers,

Phil

----
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK