The last few months have revealed flaws in all the main web browsers including IE, Netscape, Opera and Firefox. Here to add to that list is the latest Internet Explorer “Highly critical” security flaw which apparently affects 5.01, 5.5 and 6.x.
For the more technical among us, this is the flaw summary from Secunia:
The vulnerability is caused due to the javaprxy.dll COM object being instantiated incorrectly in Internet Explorer via the object tag. This can be exploited via a malicious web site to cause a memory corruption.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
That last sentence is geek speak which roughly translates to: “successfully exploiting the flaw can result in a external, remote (and probably malicious) party from taking control of your computer”.
