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EMET Protection Disabled by Publicly Available Exploit

02
Jul
2014

The latest stable version of Microsofts Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) has been found to be susceptible to public exploits, which can completely disarm its protection. Researchers at Offensive Security selected an older exploit that leveraged a weakness in the way Internet Explorer 8 handled the objects in memory in order to bypass ASLR (address space layout randomization) and DEP (data execution prevention) security features, and they altered it to disable the protectio…

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