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Microsoft Internet Explorer 'iepeers.dll' User After Free Vulnerability

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 'iepeers.dll' User After Free Vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/10/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/12/2010
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 suffer from a use-after-free vulnerability found in the Peer Objects component (aka iepeers.dll). An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to run arbitrary code. This exploit is currently being used in the wild.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-iepeers-use-after-free-workarounds

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