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Wednesday 14 August 2019

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge CVE-2019-1104 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability


Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge CVE-2019-1104 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability



Risk - High
Date Discovered : July 9, 2019

Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge are prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions.

Technologies Affected
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

Recommendations

Run all software as a nonprivileged user with minimal access rights.
To reduce the impact of latent vulnerabilities, always run nonadministrative software as an unprivileged user with minimal access rights.

Deploy network intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic for malicious activity.
Deploy NIDS to monitor network traffic for signs of anomalous or suspicious activity. This includes but is not limited to requests that include NOP sleds and unexplained incoming and outgoing traffic. This may indicate exploit attempts or activity that results from successful exploits

Do not follow links provided by unknown or untrusted sources.
Web users should be cautious about following links to sites that are provided by unfamiliar or suspicious sources. Filtering HTML from emails may help remove a possible vector for transmitting malicious links to users.

Implement multiple redundant layers of security.
Memory-protection schemes (such as nonexecutable stack and heap configurations and randomly mapped memory segments) will complicate exploits of memory-corruption vulnerabilities.

Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

References

Credits

Zhong Zhaochen of tophant.com

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