Navaho Gunleg

As reported on The Register, today:

Hackers have created a potent exploit for a six-month old vulnerability in Internet Explorer which was previously believed to be only a Denial of Service risk. A fresh exploit posted on computerterrorism.com proves that the security bug can be exploited to gain system access, even on systems running Windows XP with Service Pack 2. The flaw stems from a failure by IE to properly handle requests to the window() object.

Not that these kinds of holes are anything new, but note that ‘six-month old vulnerability in Internet Explorer which was previously believed to be only a Denial of Service risk‘.

This is not the first time that, a bug previously to be found not-so-serious by MS goons, seriously backlashes and shoots them in the foot. The sad thing is these things hardly reach the multitude through main-stream media…