CVE coverage

CVE-2014-1776

CVSS 9.8 Actively exploited (KEV) 4 detections found

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to the CMarkup::IsConnectedToPrimaryMarkup function, as exploited in the wild in April 2014. NOTE: this issue originally emphasized VGX.DLL, but Microsoft clarified that "VGX.DLL does not contain the vulnerable code leveraged in this exploit. Disabling VGX.DLL is an exploit-specific workaround that provides an immediate, effective workaround to help block known attacks."

Detection rules

Source	Rule	Status	Updated
suricata	ET WEB_CLIENT Microsoft Application Crash Report Indicates Potential VGX Memory Corruption	rev 3	2020-04-29
suricata	ET WEB_CLIENT Microsoft Application Crash Report Indicates Potential VGX Memory Corruption 2	rev 3	2020-04-29
snort	ET WEB_CLIENT Microsoft Application Crash Report Indicates Potential VGX Memory Corruption	rev 1	2014-04-30
snort	ET WEB_CLIENT Microsoft Application Crash Report Indicates Potential VGX Memory Corruption 2	rev 1	2014-04-30