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Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA25627
Release Date: 2007-06-12
Last Update: 2007-06-14
Popularity: 13,472 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
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: BA157 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA162 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA163 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA164 :: Available for 1 Credit

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1750
CVE-2007-1751
CVE-2007-0218
CVE-2007-2222
CVE-2007-3027


Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks or compromise a user's system.

1) An error within the instantiation of Urlmon.dll COM objects not intended to be instantiated in Internet Explorer can be exploited to corrupt memory.

2) An error in the handling of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) tags can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.

3) A race condition when attempting to install multiple language packs can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.

4) An error in the handling of prototype variables that point to an already deleted table cell can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.

5) Boundary errors within the ActiveListen (XListen.dll) and ActiveVoice (XVoice.dll) ActiveX controls of Microsoft Speech when handling certain methods or properties (e.g. "FindEngine()") can be exploited to cause stack-based or heap-based buffer overflows when a user visits a malicious website.

Solution:
Apply patches.

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=3B49F1ED-ABE3-4DBD-A91D-973415658F6B

Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=5C958650-28D2-4DD0-96A8-DBFE79CE3F68

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=60FB294E-A8E1-405E-A289-2D2723EDF7EE

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (optionally SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=086D6D6E-4703-4C6C-A7AF-B6DAFEEEDE5D

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=7ED19127-5C2D-48E4-A8D1-090DC69FD68B

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=1449EB5D-6E4C-4332-8CB6-AB9EE59C9A95

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=B628A3CC-A70C-478A-A10C-EEE254EE34AB

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=C2191703-8CBD-4959-9F84-E13F21173926

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=69C526B8-8B07-42BC-9BED-E18DEAE21C8E

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=A074D9C0-1FED-4753-845E-073CFCE99F45

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=744ACB43-64DA-48CC-AE69-9386B597EABC

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=069C1560-B5E5-4DFE-A18D-E0507D406028

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=77287386-48EB-4AA9-9537-626A3093AAF7

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=77287386-48EB-4AA9-9537-626A3093AAF7

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) An anonymous researcher, reported via iDefense Labs.
2) Reported by the vendor.
3) An anonymous researcher and reported via ZDI.
4) Sam Thomas, reported via ZDI.
5) Independently discovered by:
* Will Dormann, CERT/CC
* cocoruder, Fortinet Security Research

Changelog:
2007-06-13: Added additional information from iDefense Labs, ZDI, Fortinet, US-CERT, and rgod. Added additional links.
2007-06-14: Removed information about CVE-2007-1752 as it is already covered by CVE-2007-1499.

Original Advisory:
MS07-033 (KB933566):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-033.mspx

Fortinet:
http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/advisory/FGA-2007-08.html

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=542

US-CERT VU#507433:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/507433

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-037.html
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-038.html

Other References:
SA24535:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24535/

milw0rm:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4065
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4066


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