A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to an origin validation error when handling "mhtml:" URL redirections, which could be exploited by remote attackers to read content and data served from another domain in the context of a malicious web page [...]
Affected Products
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5
Microsoft Outlook Express 6
Credits
Vulnerability reported by codedreamer
ChangeLog
2006-04-27 : Initial release
2006-10-19 : Updated Affected Products
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