Palo Alto Networks™, the network security company, today announced that its Threat Research Team has discovered a vulnerability in this month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletin affecting Microsoft Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visits a Web site containing a specially crafted Windows Metafile (WMF) image. Microsoft credited Palo Alto Networks' Threat Research Team with finding CVE-2011-0658 (OLE Automation Underflow Vulnerability), which is categorized as critical.
More about CVE-2011-0658
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take complete control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
The Palo Alto Networks Threat Research Team
The Palo Alto Networks Threat Research Team is active in the research community, aggressively pursuing both new vulnerability research and alleviation of all types of threats. The team has leveraged its expertise to uncover a string of critical and important vulnerabilities and have then worked with Microsoft to make sure users are protected.
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