Brian Krebs has the latest on the Internet Explorer patch saga.
Microsoft today re-released a patch it originally issued earlier this month to plug security holes in its Internet Explorer Web browser.
Redmond had planned to re-release the patch earlier this week, which has caused periodic crashes for IE installations on Windows 2000 computers and on machines running Windows XP Service Pack 1. But security experts at eEye Digital Security discovered that crashes resulting from the bad patch could actually be exploited by attackers to install malicious software, and Microsoft was forced to delay the re-release. Microsoft’s revised securty bulletin explains this in a bit more detail.
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[tags]Internet Explorer, Patch Re-release, Microsoft, Washington Post[/tags]
