# MA-576.022016: MyCERT Advisory - Microsoft Releases Update for EMET

**Date:** 24 Feb 2016  
**Source:** https://www.mycert.org.my/portal/advisory?id=MA-576.022016  
**Advisory ID:** MA-576.022016

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**1.0 Introduction**
The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help customers with their defense in depth strategies against cyberattacks, by helping detect and block exploitation techniques that are commonly used to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities. EMET anticipates the most common actions and techniques adversaries might use in compromising a computer, and helps protect by diverting, terminating, blocking, and invalidating those actions and techniques. EMET helps protect your computer systems even before new and undiscovered threats are formally addressed by security updates and antimalware software.
MyCERT is aware of a vulnerability in Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) versions prior to 5.5.
**2.0 Impact**
Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to bypass or disable EMET to take control of an affected system.
**3.0 Affected Products**
- EMET  versions prior to 5.5
**4.0 Recommendation**
Users are recommended to perform the update immediately. Users can download latest EMET from this URL:
- <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50766>
Generally, MyCERT advises the users of this software to be updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor and follow best practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
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**5.0 References**
- <https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2016/02/23/Microsoft-Releases-Update-EMET>
- <https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/jj653751>
- <https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2016/02/using_emet_to_disabl.html>