Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2015-2391)
Publish date: April 06, 2016
Severity: CRITICAL
Advisory Date: APR 06, 2016
DESCRIPTION
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer improperly accesses objects in memory. This vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
Trend Micro researcher Jack Tang discovered and reported details about this vulnerability to Microsoft. The said company acknowledged Tang’s research contribution.
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