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Internet Explorer "DisableCachingOfSSLPages" Weakness Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA30145  
Release Date: 2008-05-12
Last Update: 2008-05-13

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-2159 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
A weakness has been reported in Internet Explorer, which may result in potentially sensitive information being inadvertently saved on a system.

Internet Explorer supports the "DisableCachingOfSSLPages" option, which is supposed to prevent encrypted web pages from being saved to disk. However, an error may result in encrypted web pages being cached regardless of the setting being enabled or not.

Solution:
Do not rely on the "DisableCachingOfSSLPages" option.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Bill Knox, MITRE.

Changelog:
2008-05-13: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
US-CERT VU#468843:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/468843



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