Zero-day attack on Internet Explorer

There's a previously unknown buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer. Specifically, the new vulnerability exists within the Vector Markup Language (VML), a component that specifies vector images in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document within IE. Current attacks try to execute Trojan horse programs that may allow remote access to a compromised system. While JavaScript is not necessary to exploit the vulnerability, the current attacks do use JavaScript. Thus the only workaround is to disable JavaScript within IE. See "