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  Two New IE Bugs Uncovered
Time: 00:08 EST/05:08 GMT | News Source: CRN | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Security analysts Wednesday warned users of a pair of unpatched bugs in Microsoft's popular Internet Explorer browser that may soon be in play because proof-of-concept code has gone public for both.

One vulnerability lets attackers execute their code remotely if they can dupe users into double-clicking on a file included in a malicious Web page. The Internet Storm Center claimed that the current proof-of-concept exploit code requires this kind of user interaction, but that went on to warn that "we can expect to find creative use of this exploit in the wild very soon." According to the ISC, disabling IE's active scripting capabilities might protect against an exploit of the bug.

The second flaw is due to a failure of IE to enforce cross-domain policies, Symantec said in a warning to customers of its DeepSight threat system. IE, which has been victimized by numerous cross-domain vulnerabilities, could be exploited to hijack usernames and passwords.

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