full-disclosure - IE exploit runs code from graphics?

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From: packetmaster at gmail.com (Jimmy Mitchener)
Subject: IE exploit runs code from graphics?

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:52:08 +0530, Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit
Deshmukh ] <aditya.deshmukh@...ine.gateway.technolabs.net> wrote:
> 
> > files (.CHM) from some web site, causing the HTML code inside the .CHM
> > to be run in the "My Computer" security zone.  Typically (like all but
> > one of _dozens and dozens_ of these I've seen) the "inner" HTML run
> 
> this is one of the  _dozens and dozens_  reasons to use mozilla on untrusted sites and use ie to access internal websites if they do depend of some ie features but set the default browser to mozilla so that when ever the user cliks something it opens in mozilla

Why would you assume Mozilla is any less vulnerable? Perhaps not
publicly, it is simply not as large of a target as IE. You should
really not be browsing on an "important" system no matter what. Unless
perhaps you have systrace or SELinux guarding it (which even then is
not 100%).

Jimmy.