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Internet Explorer 6 Window "location" Handling Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30857
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Release Date:
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2008-06-26
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Last Update:
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2008-07-09
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Popularity:
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10,268 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-2947
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Description:
Ph4nt0m Security Team has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-domain scripting attacks.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when handling the "location" or "location.href" property of a window object. This can be exploited by a malicious website to e.g. open a trusted site and execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session in context of the trusted site.
The vulnerability is confirmed in IE6 on Windows XP SP2. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, which is unaffected.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Ph4nt0m Security Team
Changelog:
2008-06-27: Added link to US-CERT.
2008-07-09: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Ph4nt0m Security Team (Chinese):
http://www.ph4nt0m.org-a.googlepages.com/PSTZine_0x02_0x04.txt
Other References:
US-CERT VU#923508:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/923508
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