“Use After Free” Flaws: A New Theme for IE Vulnerability

As part of today’s Patch Day, Microsoft released a security bulletin describing two new security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer (IE). Similar to the flaws in last month’s update, both of these vulnerabilities are what developers call “use after free” vulnerabilities – a type of memory corruption flaw that attackers can leverage to execute arbitrary code.

Final IE 0day Update: Microsoft Out-of-Cycle Patch Available

If you’ve read my two posts [ 1 / 2 ], and watched this week’s video, you already know all about the zero day vulnerability plaguing Internet Explorer (IE) this week. In my last update, I mentioned Microsoft promised to release a full, out-of-cycle patch for this serious vulnerability today. True to their word, they did just that.