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CVE Reference: CVE-2010-0255 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2010-0255 |
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Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 does not prevent rendering of non-HTML local files as HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read arbitrary files via vectors involving JavaScript exploit code that constructs a reference to a file://127.0.0.1 URL, aka the dynamic OBJECT tag vulnerability, as demonstrated by obtaining the data from an index.dat file, a variant of CVE-2009-1140 and related to CVE-2008-1448. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7145 OSVDB 62156 MS http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-035.mspx MISC http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152 CONFIRM http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded BID 38055 38056 |
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