New bug can crash Internet Explorer

by admin March 21, 2006 at 2:14 am

Microsoft is investigating a newly reported flaw in Internet Explorer 6 that could cause the browser to crash when viewing a malicious Web page, the company said Monday.

Details of the security weakness in the Web browser were published on a popular security mailing list last week by researcher Michal Zalewski. “This might not come as a surprise, but there appears to be a very interesting and apparently very much exploitable overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer,” he wrote.

The flaw can be exploited by an attacker to crash IE, Secunia said in an advisory published Monday. The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched PC running IE 6 and Windows XP with Service Pack 2, the security monitoring company said. Secunia deems the issue “not critical.”

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