The threat posed by a critical flaw in Internet Explorer has been ratcheted up by the release of a program designed to exploit the vulnerability, security researchers warned on Thursday.
Security information provider Secunia raised the buffer overflow flaw to its highest rating in a new
advisery.The vulnerability, which was made public on Tuesday, could be used to make Internet Explorer trigger a malicious program when the Microsoft browser loads a specially formatted Web page. The flaw does not affect Windows XP Service Pack 2, Secunia said.
"This advisory has been rated 'extremely critical,' as a working exploit has been published on public mailing lists," the company said.
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Nov 4, 2004, 10:19 PM
