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Secunia Advisory SA51202

Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA51202
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2012-11-13
   
Popularity 9,540 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly 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
   
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 9.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2012-1538 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-1539 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-4775 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

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

1) A use-after-free error within the "CFormElement" class can be exploited to dereference already freed memory.

2) A use-after-free error within the "CTreePos" class can be exploited to dereference already freed memory.

3) A use-after-free error within the "CTreeNode" class can be exploited to dereference already freed memory.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code.


Solution
Apply updates.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
1, 2) The vendor credits Jose A. Vazquez, spa-s3c.blogspot.com via iDefense Labs
3) The vendor credits Cheng-da Tsai (Orange), Sung-ting Tsai, and Ming-chieh Pan (Nanika), Trend Micro

Original Advisory
Microsoft (KB2761451):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-071

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