Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

Summary

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

MS.IE.IEShims.Insecure.Dll.Loading
Released Mar 02, 2011
Users should apply the solution provided by Microsoft.

Additional Information

The vulnerability exists in the way Internet Explorer 8 handles the loading of IEShims.dll. In a successful exploit of this vulnerability, an attacker could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user.

References

• https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms11-003
  
  http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294
• CVE-2011-0038

Acknowledgement

Haifei Li of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

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