Secunia Research: Internet Explorer Script Error Handling Memory Corruption
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Secunia Research 12/12/2006
- Internet Explorer Script Error Handling Memory Corruption -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
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2) Severity
Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where: Remote
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the exception
handling of script errors. This can be exploited to corrupt memory via
an HTML document containing specially crafted JavaScript that triggers
certain errors simultaneously.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
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4) Solution
Apply patches (see the vendor's advisory for details).
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5) Time Table
15/08/2006 - Vendor notified.
15/08/2006 - Vendor response.
12/12/2006 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Jakob Balle and Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.
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7) References
MS06-072 (KB925454):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-072.mspx
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2006-5579 for the vulnerability.
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-58/
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