Microsoft EMET 3.x >= 3.5 / 4.x < 4.0.4913.26122 ASLR Security Bypass

Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is installed on the remote system and is 3.x newer than or equal to 3.5 or 4.x prior to 4.0.4913.26122. It is, therefore, potentially affected by a security bypass vulnerability. The application stores function addresses in a predictable way...

CVE-2013-6791

Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET before 4.0 uses predictable addresses for hooked functions, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism via a return-oriented programming ROP attack...

Design/Logic Flaw

Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET before 4.0 uses predictable addresses for hooked functions, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism via a return-oriented programming ROP attack...

CVE-2013-6791

EMET (Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) is affected by a ROP/ASLR bypass vulnerability (CVE-2013-6791) where EMET versions before 4.0 store hooked function addresses in a predictable way. This weakness could enable context-dependent attackers to defeat ASLR, as described in source...

CVE-2013-6791

Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET before 4.0 uses predictable addresses for hooked functions, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism via a return-oriented programming ROP attack...

Introducing Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.1

In June 2013, we released EMET 4.0 and customer response has been fantastic. Many customers across the world now include EMET as part of their defense-in-depth strategy and appreciate how EMET helps businesses prevent attackers from gaining access to computers systems. Today, we’re releasing a ne...

IE Zero Day Patch Already in November Patch Tuesday Updates

Microsoft announced this afternoon that the zero-day vulnerability being exploited in a watering hole attack against an unnamed U.S.-based NGO website was already scheduled to be patched in a cumulative Internet Explorer update tomorrow. The zero-day was reported publicly on Friday by FireEye...

Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability actively being exploited in the wild

Security researchers at FireEye have detected a new series of drive-by attacks based on a new Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability. The attackers breached a website based in the US to deploy the exploit code to conduct a classic watering hole attack. The discovery was announced just a few day...

CVE-2013-3906 : Zero Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Graphics Component

Microsoft has issued a temporary fix for a 0day vulnerability that can be exploited to install malware via infected Word documents. A Zero-day Remote code execution flaw, which has been dubbed CVE-2013-3906, exploits a vulnerability in a Microsoft graphics component, to target Microsoft Office...

Microsoft issues Emergency Fix for Internet Explorer zero-day exploit

All supported versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a zero-day Exploit that is currently being exploited in targeted attacks against IE 8 and IE 9, dubbed "CVE-2013-3893 MSHTML Shim Workaround". Microsoft confirmed that the flaw was unknown before the attacks and that it is already...

Microsoft issues Emergency Fix for Internet Explorer zero-day exploit

All supported versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a zero-day Exploit that is currently being exploited in targeted attacks against IE 8 and IE 9, dubbed "CVE-2013-3893 MSHTML Shim Workaround". Microsoft confirmed that the flaw was unknown before the attacks and that it is already...

Attackers Targeting MS13-055 IE Vulnerability

Attackers are using an Internet Explorer vulnerability, which Microsoft patched yesterday, in targeted attacks that also employ a malicious Flash file installed through a drive-by download launched by compromised Web pages. The exploit that’s being used is capable of bypassing both ASLR and DEP...

[EMET v4.0] Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently, users are faced with a stream of...

EMET 4.0 now available for download

We are pleased to announce that the final release of version 4.0 of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit , best known as EMET, is now finally available for download. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273. We already mentioned some of the new...

More on Office 2003 Zero Day Vulnerability Patch

This week’s patch and security advisory for a vulnerability in Microsoft Office is the perfect example of why enterprise administrators need to take Microsoft’s criticality ratings as a suggestion and not gospel. Microsoft pushed security update MS13-051 through on Tuesday with a rating of...

A few more days before EMET 4

On May 8th, we announced that EMET 4 would have been released today, May 28th. Since that day, we had additional feedback and we are working on a few things that are requiring a little bit more time than expected. This considered, we are not releasing EMET 4 today, and we will take a few more day...

Microsoft EMET 4.0 Enables Certificate Pinning to Defeat MITM Attacks

Microsoft later this month will release a new version of its EMET protection tool, and this iteration will include a certificate pinning feature that will enable users to associate a specific certificate with a given certificate authority. The feature is designed a defense against man-in-the-midd...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 CGenericElement object use-after-free vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the CGenericElement object, which is currently being exploited in the wild. Description Microsoft Security Advisory 2847140 states:Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 9, and Internet Explorer...

[EMET v4.0 Beta] Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

The enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently, users are faced with a stream of...

BitZipper 2013 memory-corruption vulnerability

Overview BitZipper 2013 contains a memory-corruption vulnerability, which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description BitZipper 2013 contains a memory-corruption vulnerability, which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execu...