68987 : Microsoft IE mshtml CSS Tag Use-after-free Memory Corruption
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-11-03

Description

Microsoft IE contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands or code. The issue is due to an invalid flag reference within Internet Explorer. It can allow remote code execution

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Solution Unknown
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: Discovered in the Wild

Solution

OSVDB is not aware of a solution for this vulnerability. The usggested workaround are to override the Web site CSS with a user-defined style sheet and enable Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for Internet Explorer 7

Products

Microsoft Corporation
Internet Explorer
7
6
8

References

Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-11-08 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_1 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_2 Integrity_impact_2 Availability_impact_2

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