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wraggster
May 22nd, 2014, 23:07
http://a.fsdn.com/sd/articles/14/05/21/220225-1.jpg (http://it-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/05/21/220225/new-ie-8-zero-day-discovered)Trailrunner7 (1100399) (http://beta.slashdot.org/~Trailrunner7) writes"Researchers have disclosed a new zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 (https://threatpost.com/another-internet-explorer-zero-day-surfaces/106223) that could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines via drive-by downloads or malicious attachments in email messages. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed to Microsoft in October, but the company has yet to produce a patch, so HP's Zero Day Initiative, which is handling the bug, published its advisory Wednesday (http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-140/).

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