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Secunia Advisory SA42510

Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA42510
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2010-12-14
Last Update 2011-03-01
   
Popularity 23,223 views
Comments 9 comments

Criticality level Extremely criticalExtremely critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
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 This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-3971 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-0035 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-0036 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-0038 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

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

1) A use-after-free error when processing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be exploited to dereference freed memory via e.g. a specially crafted CSS file containing multiple import rules.

NOTE: According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is being actively exploited.

2) A use-after-free error when a certain data binding event removes a DSO (data source object) from the markup can be exploited to dereference already freed memory via a specially crafted web page.

3) An unspecified error exists in the way a certain object, which has not been correctly initialised or has been deleted, is accessed. This can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.

4) Certain libraries (e.g. IEShims.dll) are loaded in an unsafe manner, which can be exploited to load arbitrary libraries by tricking a user into e.g. opening a HTML file located on a remote WebDAV or SMB share.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code.


Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
1) sec yun
2) The vendor credits Yuki Chen, Trend Micro.
3) The vendor credits SkyLined, Google.
4) MantyCore

Changelog
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Original Advisory
MS11-003 (KB2482017):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-003.mspx

WooYun:
http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-0885

Other references
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Technical Analysis
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Subject: Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
 
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koppensb

RE: Internet Explorer CSS Import Rule Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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koppensb RE: Internet Explorer CSS Import Rule Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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Does confirmed with Internet Explorer 8 mean that it is also exploitable with Protected Mode activated?
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ddmarshall RE: Internet Explorer CSS Import Rule Processing Use-After-Free Vulnerability
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The Microsoft Security Advisory states that exploitation is possible with Protected Mode on, but the attacker would have very limited rights.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory...

For Vista and later systems, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit can be used to prevent the published exploit working by forcing ASLR for Internet Explorer. Some of the other mitigations may be effective for XP.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/12/22/...



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ddmarshall RE: Internet Explorer CSS Import Rule Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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If you read the Microsoft advisory, you will find that Internet Explorer 6 is also affected. You cannot use it with Windows 7 and anyone who could use it would be ill advised to use it as it has less inbuilt security than anything later.

There are two easily applied workarounds available to you in the Microsoft advisory. Either install EMET and use it to protect Internet Explorer or run the Fixit in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2488013 .

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