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Saturday, July 02, 2005

IE Bug Can Crash Browser

Security researchers have discovered a bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that can cause the software to crash, and which could possibly be used to let an attacker run unauthorized software on the IE user's machine.

The bug, which was first discovered by researchers at Austrian security consulting firm SEC Consult Unternehmensberatung and reported to Microsoft several weeks ago, concerns the way IE handles certain software modules.

By loading HTML pages that make use of certain ActiveX components, researchers were able to overwrite registers on the computer's processor, says Martin Eisner, chief technical officer with SEC Consult.

"It's possible to crash Internet Explorer"

Eisner expects Microsoft to patch the bug within a few weeks. "Right now it's not that dangerous," he says. "But of course within a couple of weeks there will be somebody who has a little bit more time than we have and there will be an exploit then."

Resouce: PCWorld

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