The importance given to the security vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer was not feigned: breaking with its habits, Microsoft has conducted Wednesday evening at the publication of an emergency security patch for its browser, without waiting for the second Tuesday of each month, when he usually distributes its patches and updates.
Described as critical by all publishers security vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if a user with Internet Explorer a web page specifically designed, opening the door to injection of malware, the elevation of privilege and to take remote control of a computer.
The conditions for the operation of this vulnerability were published last December 10, just hours after the release of Windows patches of December. According to some publishers, more than ten thousand websites, mainly pornographic, were trapped in order to take advantage, as that was growing exploits and proof of concept on specialized sites.
All users of Internet Explorer are therefore invited to proceed without waiting to install this patch, whose distribution has already started via Windows Update.
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