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>> Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1571
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-08-30


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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which potentially could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an unspecified memory corruption error when processing malformed HTML pages, which could be exploited remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system via specially crafted Web pages. No further details have been disclosed.

Affected Products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows XP SP1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1571
http://www.security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2891

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Tom Ferris

ChangeLog

2005-08-30 : Initial release

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