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Microsoft Releases Emergency Out-Of-Band Patch (technet.microsoft.com)
5 points by getdavidhiggins on Aug 18, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> The attacker could also take advantage of compromised websites and websites that accept or host user-provided content or advertisements by adding specially crafted content that could exploit this vulnerability.

So ad networks are a delivery vector.

Interestingly, both ESC and EMET could help mitigate this, so I wonder if it's a JavaScript or similar exploit.




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