CVE-2005-1990 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1990
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Description: Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, including (1) devenum.dll, (2) diactfrm.dll, (3) wmm2filt.dll, (4) fsusd.dll, (5) dmdskmgr.dll, (6) browsewm.dll, (7) browseui.dll, (8) shell32.dll, (9) mshtml.dll, (10) inetcfg.dll, (11) infosoft.dll, (12) query.dll, (13) syncui.dll, (14) clbcatex.dll, (15) clbcatq.dll, (16) comsvcs.dll, and (17) msconf.dll, which causes memory corruption, aka "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2087.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: ST 1014643 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA16373 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1221 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1061 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1235 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1337 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100082 MS http://www.microsoft.com/technet/Security/bulletin/ms05-038.mspx CERT-VN 959049 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-221A.html BID 14511

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