Microsoft issuing emergency IE patch
Microsoft has announced that security patches for Internet Explorer will be issued on July 28 at 10 am PDT. Computerworld reports:
Microsoft didn’t say exactly what it was fixing. The company typically doesn’t rush out these “out-of-band” emergency updates unless the bug is being exploited by cyber criminals; however, in this case the flaws being patched are not being leveraged in attacks, according to Microsoft.
The problem appears to lie in a widely used Windows component called the Active Template Library (ATL). According to security researcher Halvar Flake, this flaw is also to blame for an ActiveX bug that Microsoft identified earlier this month. Microsoft issued a kill-bit patch for the problem on July 14, but after looking into the bug, Flake determined that the patch didn’t fix the underlying vulnerability, so new attacks are possible.
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