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HistoryFeb 14, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Internet Explorer SetCapture Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2013-02-1400:00:00
Omair (www.krash.in)
www.zerodayinitiative.com
18

0.879 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.7%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of the setCapture method. By calling setCapture on a carefully structured document an attacker can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.