Number: AV19-260
Date: 12 November 2019
On 12 November 2019 Microsoft released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting some of its products. This rollup provides fixes for 13 critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, one of which includes a flaw in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
This vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-1429, could corrupt memory in such a way that an actor could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Microsoft reports that exploitation has been detected for this vulnerability.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the Microsoft November 2019 Security Updates webpage and apply the necessary updates:
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance
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