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Kovter trojan patches Flash Player, IE to stop other infections

Security Affairsby @securityaffairs ()2 min read2 · 1 read
Analyze CVE-2015-3113 with Vani AIImpact, affected versions, exploitation, mitigations and detection

Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2013-2551
Use-After-Free RCE in Microsoft Internet Explorer
—74%KEVRansomware—
KEV
CVE-2014-6332
Remote Code Execution via Array Bounds Flaw in Microsoft Windows OLE Automation
—95%KEV—
KEV
CVE-2015-3113
Heap-Based Buffer Overflow RCE in Adobe Flash Player
—100%KEV—
KEV

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2 min read at securityaffairs.com

Security researcher discovered a strain of the Kovter trojan that has been updating Flash Player and Internet Explorer to prevent further infections. The French security expert Kafeine have discovered a new strain of the Kovter malware noticing that the instance of the malicious code he was analyzing was attempting to download the latest version of the Flash Player.

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