Secunia Advisory SA33089

Internet Explorer Data Binding Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA33089
Release Date 2008-12-10
Last Update 2009-01-27
   
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Criticality level Extremely criticalExtremely critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-4844 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error when composed HTML elements are bound to the same data source. This can be exploited to dereference freed memory via a specially crafted HTML document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: Reportedly, the vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

The vulnerability is confirmed in Internet Explorer 7 on a fully patched Windows XP SP3 and in Internet Explorer 6 on a fully patched Windows XP SP2, and reported in Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported as a 0-day.

Additional information provided by Secunia Research.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
MS08-078 (KB960714):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-078.mspx

KnownSec:
http://www.scanw.com/blog/archives/303

Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961051.mspx

Other references
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Alternate/detailed remediation
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Deep Links
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