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Information Technology News Secunia refutes Microsoft IE7 flaw claims
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Friday, 20 October 2006 | |
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In response to the recent Secunia announcement of the IE7 flaw, Microsoft claimed the IE7 vulnerability is in fact an Outlook Express vulnerability. However, in an email to iTWire, the chief technology officer of Secunia Thomas Kristensen disputed Microsoft's assertion that Outlook Express rather than IE7 was the problem. "This may be true - from an organisational point of view within Microsoft. However, the vulnerability is fully exploitable via IE, which is the primary attack vector, if not the only attack vector," said Kristensen. "Just because a vulnerability stems from an underlying component does not relieve IE or any other piece of software from responsibility when it provides a clear direct vector to the vulnerable component." |
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