Kaspersky ID:
KLA10737
Detect Date:
01/12/2016
Updated:
06/18/2020

Description

Improper strings handling was found in Microsoft Silverlight. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed web content.


Technical details

This vulnerability can be triggered while Silverlight decodes strings using a malicious decoder that can return negative offsets that cause Silverlight to replace unsafe object headers with contents provided by an attacker.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2016-0034
    unknown

KB list

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