{"id":434448,"date":"2010-03-16T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2010-04-27T19:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:08:16","slug":"microsoft-releases-workaround-for-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/434448","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Releases Workaround For Internet Explorer 0-Day Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/posts\/pallab\/ie_logo.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Internet-Explorer-0-day-Vulnerability\" \/>Microsoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2010\/03\/16\/microsoft-releases-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability-fix-it\/\" title=\"Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 0-Day Vulnerability Fix-It\">released<\/a> a couple of workarounds for the extremely critical Internet Explorer vulnerability we had <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tech-news\/ie-0-day-vulnerability-code-published.html\" title=\"Things Just Got Worse For Internet Explorer Users: Unpatched Exploit Code Released\">discussed earlier<\/a>. The workarounds are available as Fix It solutions, which can be applied directly from the browser.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability in question is caused by an error in the Peer Factory class (iepeers.dll) and affects Internet Explorer 6 and 7. The impact of the vulnerability has been magnified by the public availability of the exploit code as well as presence of in-the-wild malwares exploiting this vulnerability. <\/p>\n<p>The first workaround simply disable Peer Factory in the concerned systems while the second one enables DEP (Data Execution Prevention) protection for older versions of Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>The Fix-It solutions make it aptly clear that Microsoft is taking this issue extremely seriously. An update is currently being tested internally and would be pushed out to all affected users as soon as possible. However, in the meantime users stuck with older versions of Internet Explorer should immediately apply the workarounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/981374\" title=\"Fix Internet Explorer 0-Day Vulnerability\">Download and Apply Fix-It Solutions<\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px\">\n<strong>Share:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/microsoft-releases-workaround-for-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability.html#commentrespond\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Comment on This Post<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?source=techiebuzz&#038;status=Microsoft%20Releases%20Workaround%20For%20Internet%20Explorer%200-Day%20Vulnerability%20http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcZOwYA%20via%20@techiebuzzer\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Tweet This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/microsoft-releases-workaround-for-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Share on Facebook<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/microsoft-releases-workaround-for-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability.html&#038;title=Microsoft%20Releases%20Workaround%20For%20Internet%20Explorer%200-Day%20Vulnerability\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Save to Delicious<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/microsoft-releases-workaround-for-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Stumble This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&#038;url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/microsoft-releases-workaround-for-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability.html&#038;title=Microsoft%20Releases%20Workaround%20For%20Internet%20Explorer%200-Day%20Vulnerability\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Digg This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/microsoft-releases-workaround-for-internet-explorer-0-day-vulnerability.html&#038;title=Microsoft%20Releases%20Workaround%20For%20Internet%20Explorer%200-Day%20Vulnerability\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Reddit This<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong style=\"font-size:11px;\">TAGS:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-transform:uppercase;font-size:11px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/internet-browsers\" rel=\"tag\">Internet Browsers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/internet-explorer\" rel=\"tag\">Internet Explorer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/online-security\" rel=\"tag\">Online Security<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/small><\/div>\n<div>\n<br \/>\n<font size=\"4\"><strong>Announcement:<\/strong> Missing Mobile News in the Main RSS Feed? 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The workarounds are available as Fix It solutions, which can be applied directly from the browser. The vulnerability in question is caused by an error in the Peer Factory class (iepeers.dll) and affects Internet Explorer 6 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}