Posts Tagged ‘0day’
Internet Explorer 8 0day
Last week, news broke that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DoL) website was compromised… and that it had been serving up Internet Explorer 0day to its visitors. This 0day, CVE-2013-1347 (Retina Audit 19041 – Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Zero-Day)), only affects Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (as well as Server 2003,…
Java/IE 0days Put to Bed
Over the past two days, two actively exploited 0day vulnerabilities got patched. Yesterday, Oracle addressed the 0day in Java, CVE-2013-0422, with an new update, Java 7u11. Today, Microsoft addressed the 0day in Internet Explorer 6-9, CVE-2012-4792, with MS13-008. In addition to fixing the 0day vulnerability, the Java update changes the default security level setting from…
Java Zero Day Exploit – Java 7 Not the Answer
A new Java zero-day vulnerability has been seen exploiting hundreds of thousands of machines. This 0day has already been incorporated into Cool Exploit Kit and Blackhole, in addition to Nuclear Pack and Redkit. This vulnerability affects Java 7 versions up to and including the current version of Java, 7u10. It should be noted that while…
Another (sigh) IE Zero-Day
Unfortunately, the security industry was not going to escape 2012 without seeing yet another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It has been discovered that a targeted attack, leveraging a zero-day in IE, has been posed against the Council on Foreign Relations Portal. The technical origin of the flaw is as follows: the vulnerability occurs…
IE 0day Fixed in Out-of-Band Patch
Microsoft has released a patch to fix the IE 0day, CVE-2012-4969, along with four other privately reported CVEs that lead to remote code execution (CVE-2012-1529, CVE-2012-2546, CVE-2012-2548, and CVE-2012-2557). One interesting thing to note is that CVE-2012-2546 and CVE-2012-2548 only affect the most recent version of Internet Explorer, IE 9. The now-patched 0day, CVE-2012-4969, affects…
Mmm, Smells Like 0day
Just when you thought we were out of the woods, Internet Explorer 0day shows up, in the wild. Here’s what you need to know about the vulnerability: Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9 are vulnerable (UPDATE: Out-of-band patch available now!) Use-after-free when the CMshtmlEd object is deleted and then the same area in memory…
