Internet Explorer Multiple Event Handlers Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19269
Release Date: 2006-03-20
Last Update: 2006-04-12
Popularity: 22,541 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1245


Description:
Michal Zalewski has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an array boundary error in the handling of HTML tags with multiple event handlers (e.g. onLoad). This can be exploited to corrupt memory in a way that may allow execution of arbitrary code via a malicious HTML document containing an HTML tag with 94 or more event handlers.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.

Solution:
Apply patches.

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...7B87-AF8F-4346-9164-596E3E5C22B1

Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...41E1-2B36-4696-987A-099FC57E0129

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...FB31-E6B4-4771-81F1-4ACCEBF72133

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...6871-D217-41D3-BECC-B27FAFA00054

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems and Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based systems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...957C-0ABE-4129-ABAF-AA2852AD62A3

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...8BE3-39EE-4937-9BD1-280FC35125C6

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...FE3E-620A-4BBC-868B-CA2D9EFF7AC3

Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, or Windows ME:
Patches are available via the Microsoft Update Web site or the Windows Update Web site.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Michal Zalewski

Changelog:
2006-04-12: Updated "Description" and "Solution" sections. Added CVE reference. Added link to Microsoft security bulletin. Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.

Original Advisory:
MS06-013 (KB912812):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-013.mspx

Other References:
US-CERT VU#984473:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/984473


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