Internet Explorer - New Zero-Day exploit in-the-wild
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:03 PM
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hwaldron
Internet Explorer - New Zero-Day exploit in-the-wild
Please be careful with all websites visited and follow developments closely. While this attack is currently on a limited scale folks should be cautious anyway with all website visitation
Internet Explorer - New Zero-Day exploit in-the-wild
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5458
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961051.mspx
QUOTE: Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation so far has shown that these attacks are against Windows Internet Explorer 7 on supported editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2008.
At this time, we are aware only of limited attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability. Our investigation of these attacks so far has verified that they are not successful against customers who have applied the workarounds listed in this advisory.