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

"der wert" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This is a completely different issue, the one you speak of about the jpg 
file, what it was was a gif header in a .jpg file with javascript after it, 
and I just tried it and it is still unpatched, but none the less a different 
issue

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On 10 Aug 2006 05:59:06 -0000, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>This was actually patched a while ago by Microsoft to the best of my 
>knowlege(I tested it). However, this may be a tad different. In older 
>versions it was possible to upload image files to say a message board or 
>whatever say an avatar. But by placing javascript in any file with a .jpg 
>extension made IE execute the javascript. This went public a few years ago 
>I beleive and was only fixed a month or so ago.
>

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