Chinese Team Mistakenly Released Unpatched IE7 Exploit
How do you “accidentally†released code that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7? Do you just trip one day and it “accidentally†falls out of your pocket and land on the internet?
How do you “accidentally†released code that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7? Do you just trip one day and it “accidentally†falls out of your pocket and land on the internet?
At one point, the code was traded for as much as US$15,000 on the underground criminal markets, according to iDefense, the computer security branch of VeriSign, citing a blog post from the Chinese team. The problem in Internet Explorer 7 means a computer could be infected with malicious software merely by visiting a Web site, one of the most dangerous computer security scenarios. It affects computers running IE7 on Windows XP, regardless of the service pack version.
