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Kovter trojan patches Flash Player, IE to stop other infections
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
From the original article
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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