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Is It the Beginning of the End For Use-After-Free Exploitation?

Use-after-free bugs have affected Internet Explorer for years. In the past year alone, Microsoft patched 122 IE vulnerabilities, the majority of which were use-after-free bugs. This year Microsoft has already patched 126 IE vulnerabilities to date. Of those vulnerabilities, 4 were actively being exploited in the wild. These 4 exploits (CVE-2014-1815, CVE-2014-1776, CVE-2014-0322, CVE-2014-0324) were all based on use-after-free bugs....

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Jul 16, 2014

By Tao Yan, Bo Qu and Royce Lu

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Palo Alto Networks Identifies 21 New Critical Vulnerabilities in Internet E...

Today, Microsoft patched 59 Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, 21 of them discovered by Palo Alto Networks researchers. Palo Alto Networks is committe...

Jun 10, 2014

By Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity, Threat Advisory/Analysis, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

How To Defend Against Advanced IE Exploitation

In February, Microsoft awarded $100,000 to Yu Yang (@Tombkeeper) for reporting a new mitigation bypass technique as part of Microsoft’s Bounty Program. Yu later demonstrated his re...

Jun 06, 2014

By IPS Team

Cybersecurity, Threat Advisories - Advisories

Palo Alto Networks Discovers 4 Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

Palo Alto Networks researcher Bo Qu has discovered 4 new critical Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerabilities covering versions 8, 9, 10, and the latest, I...

Feb 11, 2014

By Scott Simkin

Cybersecurity, Threat Advisories - Advisories

Palo Alto Networks Discovers Another New Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Following his discovery of 3 critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) last month, Palo Alto Networks Researcher Bo Qu has identifi...

Dec 10, 2013

By Scott Simkin

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