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Internet Explorer .MHT Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8283
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Release Date:
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2003-03-13
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Last Update:
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2006-03-23
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Popularity:
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18,343 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Internet Explorer's 'web archive' format (files with the extension ".mht").
Reportedly, the vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when handling encoded executables along with malformed MIME header in the 'Web Archive' and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a user's system. This has not been proven, though.
However, from analysing the crash dump enclosed in the original advisory, the vulnerability seems to be caused by a NULL pointer dereference bug and not a boundary error. This indicates that the vulnerability cannot be exploited to compromise a user's system but only cause Internet Explorer to crash.
Other security experts have come to a similar conclusion.
Change Page:
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