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

Message-ID: <43924.198.162.158.16.1089312599.squirrel@198.162.158.16>
From: eric at arcticbears.com (Eric Paynter)
Subject: How big is the danger of IE?

On Thu, July 8, 2004 11:09 am, Larry Seltzer said:
>>> Outlook and Outlook Express use IE to display HTML mails, which make
>>> some of the IE bugs exploitable (I don't know if it's the case for this
>>> one).
>
> In general this isn't true for any remotely recent copy of either program.
> Both run HTML mail in the restricted zone which disabled all script,
> ActiveX and anything else dangerous

I thought one of the recent problems was that you could convince IE (and
IE-reliant software) to run code in an arbitrary zone.

-Eric

--
arctic bears - affordable email and name services @yourdomain.com
http://www.arcticbears.com