CVE-2017-11908: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

December 12, 2017 (updated December 21, 2017)

ChakraCore and Windows allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka “Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability”. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11886, CVE-2017-11889, CVE-2017-11890, CVE-2017-11893, CVE-2017-11894, CVE-2017-11895, CVE-2017-11901, CVE-2017-11903, CVE-2017-11905, CVE-2017-11905, CVE-2017-11907, CVE-2017-11909, CVE-2017-11910, CVE-2017-11911, CVE-2017-11912, CVE-2017-11913, CVE-2017-11914, CVE-2017-11916, CVE-2017-11918, and CVE-2017-11930.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/102052
www.securitytracker.com/id/1039990
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11908
portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11908

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