The issue also can be exploited through Outlook and Internet Explorer. Guninski says the problem could result in malicious program taking control of the user's computer. Click here for a demonstration. According to Cisco's alert, the Cisco Secure PIX Firewall cannot distinguish between a forged TCP Reset packet and a genuine TCP RST packet. This vulnerability is independent of configuration.
Cisco reports no workaround is available.
Click here for more information. The application, used to decompress e-mails sent from Outlook, could display sensitive path names and could be used to by a malicious user to overwrite password files, for instance. For patch information, click here . Click here for patch information. According to a Sun alert, a security weakness exists in Sun's Java Web Server default configuration.