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Old 04-27-2014, 04:56 PM   #1
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Default Need another reason to stop using XP? Here ya go.

http://gizmodo.com/new-vulnerability...ium=socialflow

According to the article, this puts about a quarter of the entire browser market at risk. (Source: Fire Eye) In a refinement of phishing, this vulnerability takes advantage of memory corruption after the user has been lured to a malicious website.

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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.
And since Microsoft kinda stopped supporting XP earlier this month, people still blindly clinging to it won't get the upcoming patch for this day-zero "use after free" bug.
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