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Vulnerability Development: Re: Automatic MIME type detection in Internet Explorer 6.x allowed

Re: Automatic MIME type detection in Internet Explorer 6.x allowed

From: Denis Jedig <seclists_at_syneticon.de>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:57:04 +0200

knight4vn_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> Automatic MIME type detection in Internet Explorer 6.x allowed
> downloading executable file automatically

If you change file headers to JPEGs, it's not an executable file any
more - that simple. Even if it were, "downloading" something and placing
it in temporary files is not a vulnerability. Executing it is, but this
can't happen with the described mechanisms.

Denis
Received on Aug 03 2006

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