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HistoryNov 19, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Quotes Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2014-11-1900:00:00
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www.zerodayinitiative.com
20

0.625 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.9%

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 vulnerability relates to how Internet Explorer processes CSS-generated quotes. By creating a document with a particular structure that utilizes CSS-generated quotes, an attacker can force a CQuotes object in memory to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.