Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft Internet Explorer MS12-037

Description

This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and twelve privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. 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.

Affected Applications

Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 9

CVE References

CVE-2012-1858 CVE-2012-1872 CVE-2012-1873 CVE-2012-1874 CVE-2012-1875 CVE-2012-1523 CVE-2012-1876 CVE-2012-1877 CVE-2012-1878 CVE-2012-1879 CVE-2012-1880 CVE-2012-1881 CVE-2012-1882

Other References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2012-1858