46083 : Microsoft IE HTML Object Handling Memory Corruption Arbitrary Code Execution
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
5	795	over 3 years ago	over 2 years ago	8 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date
2008-02-07	2008-06-10

Keywords

c01482941, HPSBST02344, SSRT080087

Description

A memory corruption flaw exists in Internet Explorer. IE fails to validate HTML objects resulting in memory corruption. With a specially crafted web page, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required, Remote / Network Access, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Patch / RCS
Exploit: Exploit Private, Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Microsoft has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Internet Explorer	7
		6

References

Security Tracker: 1020225
CVE ID: 2008-1442 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 29556
Secunia Advisory ID: 30575
SCIP VulDB ID: 3731
Related OSVDB ID: 46084
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 950759
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2008-1778
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-06/0100.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-06/0165.html
News Article: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Microsoft-Patch-Tuesday-7/
Other Advisory URL: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-039/
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS08-031
CERT: TA08-162B

Tools & Filters

Snort	12279
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Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-06-12 | Disagree?

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2008/07/24 19:37:04 | Is your site ready for Internet Explorer 8? How to find out and update if not.

from: MSDN Blogs - Blogs

You may already be aware of this, but if not, Internet Explorer 8 is currently available in beta today. With this new beta version of IE, you may experience one of the following issues when you use the Beta 1 version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 to view existing web pages:

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