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Analyzing CVE-2018-8653 with REVEN: Use-after-Free in Internet Explorer Scripting Engine
10 Mar 2020
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Luc
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In this post we will have a look at the proof of concept for CVE-2018-8653 that comes from a very interesting blog post from Philippe Laulheret et al. at MacAfee Labs. To summarize, the vulnerability exploits various seemingly innocent behaviors in Internet Explorer’s scripting engine (jscript.dll) to trigger a use-after-free...