Update: Technical McAfee Detail On DoubleAgent
Cedric Cochin teamed with Brook Schoenfield on this article Updated March 29, 2017 McAfee has been investigating the impact of the so-called “DoubleAgent zero-day” technique of Windows debugging capabilities announced on 22 March 2017. This injection technique uses a Microsoft Windows debugging feature that requires administrative privileges. On the fly debugging ...
Product Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-1776 (Microsoft Internet Explorer)
On April 26, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2963983 for Microsoft Internet Explorer. In-the-wild exploitation of this vulnerability has been observed across limited, targeted attacks. The flaw is specific to a use-after-free vulnerability in VGX.DLL (memory corruption). Successful exploitation can give an attacker the ability to run arbitrary code (via remote ...
Product Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-1761 (Microsoft Word)
On March 24, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2953095 for Microsoft Word. In-the-wild exploitation of this vulnerability has been observed across limited, targeted attacks. The flaw is a memory-corruption vulnerability that can be invoked when parsing specially crafted RTF files or data. Successful exploitation can give an attacker the ability to ...
