Friday, February 21, 2014

Microsoft Security Advisory (2934088)

MICROSOFT OFFERS SOME HELP TO I.E. 9 AND 10 USERS



Microsoft issued Security Advisory (2934088), dealing with attacks on Internet Explorer 9 and 10 users, which should thwart and attack under they issue a patch, possibly on March 11th. In part, the advisory said -


'Microsoft is aware of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10. Only Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 10 are affected by this vulnerability. Other supported versions of Internet Explorer are not affected. Applying the Microsoft Fix it solution, "MSHTML Shim Workaround," prevents the exploitation of this issue. See the Suggested Actions section of this advisory for more information.
The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the way that Internet Explorer accesses an object in memory that has been deleted or has not been properly allocated. The vulnerability may corrupt memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user within Internet Explorer. An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.'

The full advisory can be read HERE, and the work around can be found HERE. You'll want to click on the FIXIT icon that is marked ENABLE.


'Nuff Said,
Brian


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