{"id":1815,"date":"2012-10-10T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:13:11","slug":"vulnerability-in-internet-explorer-could-allow-remote-code-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2012\/10\/vulnerability-in-internet-explorer-could-allow-remote-code-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm another\u00a0Microsoft Security Advisory.\u00a0 This time, strangely it affects Internet Explorer\u00a0 6 to 9. That is nearly all versions.\u00a0 The vulnerability seems to be quite unique. \u00a0It could allow the hacker to perform remote code execution on websites.<\/p>\n<p>The mitigation is more than the usual turn off the ActiveX until the patch is out. It require\u00a0users involve installing a &#8220;Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolket&#8221; or EMET.<\/p>\n<p>This complexity led to some tech websites encouraging users to change browsers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2012\/09\/18\/internet_explorer_zero_day_vulnerability_ie8_ie9_hack_means_you_should_switch_browsers_.html\" target=\"_blank\">link\u00a0<\/a> This is easier said than done.\u00a0 Corporate users need Internet Explorer to access Sharepoint, SSRS, CRM etc.\u00a0 Telling them to use another browser for Internet related work is an exercise in futility.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, KB articles are now 8 digits!<\/p>\n<p>Advisory here. <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/advisory\/2757760\" target=\"_blank\">2757760<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EMET KB here <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2458544\" target=\"_blank\">2458544<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Update 10 Oct 12<\/h2>\n<p>The Security Update that you should install is here <a href=\" http:\/\/bit.ly\/R6ORqx \" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>\u00a0 This is for Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 across all operating systems.\u00a0 Internet Explorer 6?\u00a0 Why are you still using this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm another\u00a0Microsoft Security Advisory.\u00a0 This time, strangely it affects Internet Explorer\u00a0 6 to 9. That is nearly all versions.\u00a0 The vulnerability seems to be quite unique. \u00a0It could allow the hacker to perform remote code execution on websites. The mitigation&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/3767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}