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Secunia Advisory SA36979

Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA36979
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Release Date 2009-10-13
Last Update 2009-11-03
   
Popularity 9,583 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly 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
   
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
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-1547 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2529 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2530 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2531 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An unspecified error in the processing of data stream headers can be exploited to trigger a memory corruption.

2) An error related to a certain HTML component is caused due to the improper validation of arguments.

3) An error with the copy constructor of an unspecified DOM object can be exploited to trigger a double-free error causing a memory corruption.

4) An error exists within the processing of certain CSS style information, which can be exploited to cause a memory corruption by using a writing-mode style in combination with certain HTML tags.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.


Solution
Apply patches and then the following update:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
1) The vendor credits SkyLined of Google Inc.
2) The vendor credits Mark Dowd, Ryan Smith, and David Dewey.
3) Two anonymous persons, reported via ZDI.
4) Sam Thomas of eshu.co.uk, reported via ZDI.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Microsoft (KB974455):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-054.mspx

Microsoft:
http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/10/12/ms09-054.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/11/02/update-released-for-ms09-054.aspx

Zero Day Initiative:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-070/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-071/

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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