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Internet Explorer Exception Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19762
Release Date: 2006-04-25
Last Update: 2006-06-15
Popularity: 73,661 views

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

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

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Solution:
Apply patches.

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=91A997DE-BAE4-4AC7-912D-79EF8ABAEF4F

Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=0EB17A41-FB43-413B-A5CC-41E1F3DEDE4F

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=85CABE87-C4A0-4F80-BD1C-210E23FD8D81

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=CCE7C875-C9A4-4C3D-A37B-946EE5E781E7

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems (with or without SP1):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=C8E4CFB6-1350-4AAE-B681-EE2ECAB41118

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=1C7D5C6D-DDCF-485D-A1E3-60E55334FD74

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=F91791AC-8185-4346-AA66-89F74D4B5EA7

Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, or Windows Me:
Patches are available from the Windows Update web site.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Andreas Sandblad, Secunia Research.

Initial crash bug discovered by:
Michal Zalewski

Changelog:
2006-04-28: Updated "Description" section to clarify that Secunia has successfully exploited the vulnerability.
2006-05-01: Updated "Description" section. During further analysis, it has become clear that the issue successfully exploited by Secunia is a variant of the issue discovered by Michal Zalewski.
2006-05-05: Added CVE reference.
2006-06-13: Updated advisory with additional information from Microsoft.
2006-06-15: Added link to Secunia Research advisory.

Original Advisory:
MS06-021 (KB916281):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-021.mspx

Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-41/

Other References:
KB article discussing known issues when installing the update:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916281

US-CERT VU#338828:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338828

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