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HistoryMay 29, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

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

2013-05-2900:00:00
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www.zerodayinitiative.com
16

EPSS

0.943

Percentile

99.2%

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 issue is due to the way anchor elements are handled. When parsing occurs, the process can be made to delete an object resulting is a dangling pointer. The process can be later forced to reuse this pointer resulting in a use-after-free condition. An attacker can leverage this situation to execute code under the context of the user running the browser.