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Feuer Frei!

05-23-14 07:16 AM

Unpatched Security Vulnerability in IE8

After being reported back in October 2013, Microsoft remains idle and no patch has been activated.
Nice support Microsoft.
Users beware!

Quote:

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file

http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-140/

STEED

05-23-14 08:36 AM

Windows XP stops at IE8 so I suspect its another way of making you go out and buy Windows 8 so you can have IE11.

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