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MS IE patch misses the mark

by - source: Tom's Hardware

Microsoft's latest cumulative patch for Internet Explorer fails to tackle at least one of the problems it is meant to fix, and leaves a dozen reported security bugs unpatched. That's according to postings by Danish security researcher Thor Larholm and GreyMagic Software to security mailing list BugTraq, which point to a number of shortcomings with the patch. In its advisory, Microsoft refers to the most serious of the six bugs as a "cross-site scripting vulnerability in a Local HTML Resource".


But security watchers say the problem is worse: Full story at The Register .

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