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Security researcher Tom Ferris says he has discovered a security vulnerability in the Beta 2 Preview release of Internet Explorer 7. The bug lies in the urlmon.dll file and causes the browser to crash when it encounters a URL with the "file://" protocol followed by a long string of dashes.

Ferris previously discovered security flaws in Firefox, IE6 and QuickTime. He notes that arbitrary code could be executed on a machine running Microsoft's newest beta browser, but his proof-of-concept code simply crashes the application. The issue has been reported to Microsoft and Ferris says it is only of medium severity.


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02-03-2006 12:57 AM
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RE: IE7 Beta 2 Preview Open to DoS Attack
Please explain to me how this is a DoS attack?

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RE: IE7 Beta 2 Preview Open to DoS Attack
Still beta, this is naturally expected.  I still think its good and will continue using it.
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Please explain to me how this is a DoS attack?
thought that was pretty Clear how


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RE: IE7 Beta 2 Preview Open to DoS Attack
It's not clear to me either, unless DoS now means a bug that allows someone to crash the browser?
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Please explain to me how this is a DoS attack?
thought that was pretty Clear how

More info can be read here

How does that link relate to any of this at all?
02-03-2006 01:17 AM
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O.P. RE: IE7 Beta 2 Preview Open to DoS Attack
dunno.. i found it oin the betanews site? ..i'll remove it
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Er...okay.

Now can you explain how this is a DoS attack? :tongue:
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hey i didnt write it, i just quotesd it from some guy from betanews.com 
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I think its safe to say you need a better news source.
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