Technical Note
PROBLEM: Internet Explorer is vulnerable to the Freiburg attack.

Internet Explorer 4.0 has a bug known as the Freiburg text-viewing bug, which could allow a malicious Web site to obtain the contents from a text, HTML, or a graphic image (no other file types) from a user's hard disk. That information could not be damaged or manipulated on the user's computer, but it could be viewed.

SOLUTION:

A description of the bug and a patch to fix it can be found here.


Monday, 02-Aug-99 13:22:09 Technical Note 0010

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