---------------------------------------------------------------------- Secure your corporate defenses and reduce complexity in handling vulnerability threats with the new Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM) Beta. Join the beta: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Internet Explorer "window.onerror" Information Disclosure Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA41944 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/41944/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=41944 RELEASE DATE: 2010-10-23 DISCUSS ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/41944/#comments AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Last Update * Popularity * Comments * Criticality Level * Impact * Where * Solution Status * Operating System / Software * CVE Reference(s) http://secunia.com/advisories/41944/ ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Authentication Level * Report Reliability * Secunia PoC * Secunia Analysis * Systems Affected * Approve Distribution * Remediation Status * Secunia CVSS Score * CVSS https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=41944 ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI: * AUTOMATED SCANNING http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/ 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 OTHER REFERENCES: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ DEEP LINKS: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED DESCRIPTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED SOLUTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXPLOIT: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------