New IE Vulnerability: XP Users Take Note
Microsoft Warns of Attacks on IE Zero-Day I know the XP topic has been covered extensively and that most XP users here are wise enough to not be IE users, but just in case anyone is still using IE ...
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Captain Obvious wrote:
This is not an IE problem. This is another Adobe Flash bug.
Chrome & Firefox on Windows, Mac, & Linux are also affected.
Not really- from http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/222929
"CERT" wrote:
Note that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. Although no Adobe Flash vulnerability appears to be at play here, the Internet Explorer vulnerability is used to corrupt Flash content in a way that allows ASLR to be bypassed via a memory address leak. This is made possible with Internet Explorer because Flash runs within the same process space as the browser. Note that exploitation without the use of Flash may be possible.
