Palo Alto Networks Identifies 21 New Critical Vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer
Summary: Microsoft patched 59 Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, 21 of which were discovered and reported to Microsoft by Palo Alto Networks researchers. The company says Microsoft has credited its team with 14 previous IE vulnerabilities in 2014, bringing its total for the year to 35, while Microsoft's 2014 IE patch total now stands at 116 against 129 for all of 2013.
Key Takeaway: Internet Explorer is still deployed in many of the networks Palo Alto Networks protects, and the article notes its researchers linked a May IE 0-day (CVE-2014-1776) to exploit code used against two other IE vulnerabilities in the prior 12 months - a reminder that legacy browser flaws keep getting reused by attackers.
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- Topics
- Zero-Days & Exploits
- Mentions
- CVE-2014-1776
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