Question on IE patching

rheckber · Post by **rheckber** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:22 pm

Hi, We are just wondering if PWB is affected by the latest IE vulnerability addressed by the Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (828750). this is the one that addresses the shortcomings of MS03-032 and also prevents the "pop-under" exploit. Also, would it be possible to post regularly whether any vulnerabilities that have to do with IE also affect PWB?

We are running a mix of 2.02 and 2.04

Thanks,
Rick Heckbert
Tisch Library
Tufts University

spragers · Post by **spragers** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:46 pm

Since PWB uses the IE rendering engine, I assume that any problems that affect IE will also affect PWB. I'm sure Scott will correct me if I'm wrong

Post by **Scott** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:00 pm

You are correct. PWB uses the IE Web Browser control and thus any patches applied to IE will also affect PWB. PWB does not know how to directly Render, Print, Save, etc. HTML files and relies totaly on Internet Explorer for all of the web browsing funcitonality.

--Scott