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Latest IE Thing: Its Not a Bug, Its a Feature
Published February 24th, 2007 in Browser Security, Bugs and Issues, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Internet Explorer
Microsoft has another IE vulnerability on its hands. But is it a flaw, or is it a feature? IE’s been having a miserable time of late, starring ![internet explorer II [od].jpg](/wp-content/uploads/internet explorer II [od].jpg "internet explorer II [od].jpg")
in scads of headlines about security flaws. Most recently came last week’s monthly security bulletin, a package of fixes for 20 individual problems in Microsoft products. Included in the IE bulletin were fixes for a pair of COM (Component Object Model) instantiation memory corruption vulnerabilities, and a fix for an FTP server response-parsing memory corruption issue.
The issues were rated as critical in versions of the browser previous to its current IE 7 iteration, in which they rank as only "important" or "low." The latest issue, discovered by Indian security researcher Rajesh Sethumadhavan, supposedly allows for information disclosure in IE 6 or 7 when a user visits a Web site. Security Watch - Microsoft Windows - Updated: Latest IE Thing: It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature
