CVE-2008-2257 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2257
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Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order," aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: ST 1020674 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31375 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5266 MS http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-045.mspx MISC http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-050/ HP http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495430/100/0/threaded BID 30613

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