Using The IE Browser? Then Prepare To Be Attacked

Let me begin this article by concentrating on the wonderful Internet. As we all know, there are many browsers you could choose from to explore the Internet. If you have already chosen one that‘s great, but you cannot be 100 percent sure with regards to its security. So, which browser do you use for exploring the Internet? If Internet Explorer is your answer, you should be very attentive.

This time multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Malicious people could exploit these multiple vulnerabilities and compromise a vulnerable system. With the more severe vulnerabilities, attackers could perform remote code execution. These security issues are caused by memory corruption errors while processing certain HTML and DHTML data. It enables attackers to crash a targeted browser or execute arbitrary code when a user is tricked into visiting a manipulated web page, using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are created to have fewer user privileges on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user privileges.

Table 1.  Affected platforms

Some of the files related to the vulnerable Internet Explorer 6 may include but are not limited to the following: A2P.EXE, accesscontrol.dll, BASE64.DLL, cachemov.exe, DELNODE.EXE and ENLIST.EXE .

After all this scary information regarding multiple vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, I also have exciting news to tell you. The security update for these multiple vulnerabilities was released! It concentrates on these vulnerabilities by changing the way that Internet Explorer controls scripts and cached content and initializes memory. The majority of IE customers have automatic updating enabled and would not need to take any action because the security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating are strongly recommended to check for updates and install this update manually.

This security update is rated critical for Internet Explorer 5.01, and important for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 running on supported editions of Microsoft Windows 2000.  Rated critical for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 running on supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Lastly, for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 running on supported editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 the update was rated moderate.