30814 : Microsoft IE DHTML Script Function Memory Corruption
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
6	301	over 3 years ago	7 days ago	2 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2006-08-31	2006-12-12	2006-12-12

Time to Patch
103 days

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a flaw related to the DHTML script functions that is triggered when a user visits a malicious web page that contains certain DHTML script functions, such as normalize, which can corrupt memory and allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Microsoft has released a patch to address this issue. Additionally, it is possible to correct the flaw by implementing the following workaround(s): Disable active scripting.

Products

Microsoft Corporation

Internet Explorer

References

CVE ID: 2006-5581 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 21546
Secunia Advisory ID: 23288
Related OSVDB ID: 30813 30815 30816
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 925454
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-4966
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-12/0235.html
Generic Informational URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/normalize.asp
Other Advisory URL: http://www.eeye.com/research/html/newsletters/alert/pub/AL20061212.html
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2006-121212-1201-99
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-048.html
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS06-072

Tools & Filters

	23833

Credit

Sam Thomas - -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-12-12 | Disagree?

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