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To: John Covalesky who wrote (6094)	11/11/1997 2:44:00 PM
From: Chi-X	Read Replies (1) of 213173

John, still convinced that browsers are perfectly safe? Microsoft (MSFT) plans to post a fix in the next 24 hours for an Internet Explorer 4.0 bug that could turn a hyperlink into a hornet's nest. The company today confirmed the existence of what it is calling the buffer-overrun security bug. The bug allows a malicious Web site author to take advantage of IE 4.0's limited capacity for Web addresses of the "res://" type. Here's how it works: IE 4.0 can only read a hyperlink address of up to 256 characters. Anything longer than that crashes the browser and causes the remaining characters of the address to go into the computer's memory. A malicious Web site author can spawn a virus simply by writing code from the 257th character of the res:// address. news.com

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