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Secunia Advisory SA9935

Microsoft Internet Explorer Update fixes the Object Data Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA9935
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2003-10-04
Last Update 2003-10-06
   
Popularity 62,257 views
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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
   
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 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0838 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2003-0809 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Microsoft has released a new cumulative patch for Internet Explorer. This fixes the Object Data vulnerability, which was inadequatedly addressed in MS03-32.

The Object Data vulnerability could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a user's system through HTML documents such as emails and web pages.

Further information about the Object Data vulnerability:
SA9580

The cumulative patch also changes some behaviour of DHTML, which in combination with other vulnerabilities or programs such as Windows Media Player could lead to execution of arbitrary code. This change does not seem to fix the problem completely as Microsoft still recommends users to upgrade Windows Media Player.

For more information:
SA9358


Solution
The patch is available from WindowsUpdate or from:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-040.asp

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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