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TITLE:
Internet Explorer "DisableCachingOfSSLPages" Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30145

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30145/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/12366/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Internet Explorer, which may result
in potentially sensitive information being inadvertently saved on a
system.

Internet Explorer supports the "DisableCachingOfSSLPages" option,
which is supposed to prevent encrypted web pages from being saved to
disk. However, an error may result in encrypted web pages being
cached regardless of the setting being enabled or not.

SOLUTION:
Do not rely on the "DisableCachingOfSSLPages" option.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bill Knox, MITRE.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#468843:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/468843

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