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Originally posted by By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews


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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Please explain to me how this is a DoS attack?

Still beta, this is naturally expected.  I still think its good and will continue using it.

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Originally posted by .Norma
Please explain to me how this is a DoS attack?

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thought that was pretty Clear how

It's not clear to me either, unless DoS now means a bug that allows someone to crash the browser?

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Originally posted by Animal

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Originally posted by .Norma
Please explain to me how this is a DoS attack?

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thought that was pretty Clear how

More info can be read here

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How does that link relate to any of this at all?

dunno.. i found it oin the betanews site? ..i'll remove it

Er...okay.

Now can you explain how this is a DoS attack?

hey i didnt write it, i just quotesd it from some guy from betanews.com 

I think its safe to say you need a better news source.