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Internet Explorer File Download Handling Memory Corruption
Secunia Advisory: SA23469
Release Date: 2007-10-09
Popularity: 17,654 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
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

Binary Analysis: BA96 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the file download queue handling when processing multiple concurrent attempts to start a file download. This can be exploited via a specially crafted web page to corrupt memory in a way that results in use of an already freed object.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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