Root Cause Analysis of CVE-2014-1772 – An Internet Explorer Use After Free Vulnerability

We see many kinds of vulnerabilities on a regular basis. These range from user-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities, to type confusion, to buffer overflows, to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. It’s rather interesting to understand the root cause of each of these vulnerability types, so we looked at the root cause of an Internet Explorer vulnerability – CVE-2014-1772. We’d…