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>> Microsoft Internet Explorer Printing Cross-Zone Scripting Vulnerability
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Title : Microsoft Internet Explorer Printing Cross-Zone Scripting Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1529
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2281
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-14
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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take comple control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an input validation error when handling URLs and links within a web page while generating a printable HTML document, which could be exploited by malicious web sites to cause arbitrary scripting code to be run in the Local Zone security context and execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting and printing a specially crafted web page with the "Print table of links" feature enabled.
Note: The "Print table of links" option is disabled by default.
Affected Products
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1529
http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/05/14/InternetExplorerQuotPrintTableOfLinksquotCrossZoneScriptingVulnerability.aspx
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Aviv Raff.
ChangeLog
2008-05-14 : Initial release
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