Security task force issues stop-gap fix for IE hole.
A team of security experts and reverse engineers have created a patch for the latest zero-day vulnerability in
Microsoft Internet Explorer
. The emergency measure is intended to protect users until the full patch is released by
Microsoft
– which is expected to be in a few weeks’ time as part of the October ‘Patch Tuesday’.
The VML buffer overflow flaw is getting wide publicity and has been targeted by several exploits, using both malicious websites and HTML email to infect vulnerable computers. The
Zeroday Emergency Response Team
(
ZERT
) have designed, created and tested a temporary fix for the problem, but make it clear that their patch is not supported by
Microsoft
, and is provided as-is without guarantees.
ZERT
includes a number of leading experts, and their liaison with the AV community is taken care of by former
Virus Bulletin
editor Nick Fitzgerald.
The patch, and more information about
ZERT
, is
here
. An in-depth article on the
IE
problem, and the solvers, is
here
.
Posted on 22 September 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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