31892 : Microsoft IE FTP Server Response Parsing Memory Corruption
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
6	821	over 4 years ago	12 months ago	6 times	100%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2006-08-16	2006-08-16	2006-08-16	2007-02-13	2007-03-09

Time to Exploit
205 days

Description

A remote overflow exists in Internet Explorer. The wininet.dll FTP client fails to validate FTP server responses resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted server response, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Private
Disclosure: OSVDB 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	5
		6

References

Security Tracker: 1017642
CVE ID: 2007-0217 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 22489
Secunia Advisory ID: 24156
SCIP VulDB ID: 2928
Related OSVDB ID: 31891 31893
Milw0rm: 3444
Exploit Database: 3444
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 928090
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-0584
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-02/0211.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-03/0057.html
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=473
Vendor URL: http://www.microsoft.com
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-016.mspx
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS07-016

Tools & Filters

	24340

Credit

Greg MacManus - iDefense Labs

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-02-14 | Disagree?

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