Secunia Security Advisory - Chris Evans has reported a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Internet Explorer "window.onerror" Information Disclosure
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA41944
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RELEASE DATE:
2010-10-23
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DESCRIPTION:
Chris Evans has reported a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which
can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially
sensitive information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
the "window.onerror" event, which can be exploited to disclose
certain information from other web pages by e.g. including them as
script and catching the error messages of the parser.
The vulnerability is confirmed in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on a
fully patched Windows XP SP3 system.
SOLUTION:
Do not browse untrusted websites.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chris Evans
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2010/10/minor-leak-major-headache.html
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