Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 ActiveX Object denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (Web Browser). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component ActiveX Object. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow exception) via a DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient ActiveX object with a long (1) StartColorStr or (2) EndColorStr property.

The issue has been introduced in 03/22/2001. The weakness was published 07/17/2006 by H D Moore (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at vupen.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-3657 since 07/17/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at metasploit.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1942 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (27762). Similar entries are available at 31357 and 31356.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: H D Moore
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-3657 (🔍)
X-Force: 27762
SecurityFocus: 19029 - Microsoft Internet Explorer DXImageTransform Properties Denial Of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 27109 - Microsoft IE DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient Multiple Property Overflow
Vupen: ADV-2006-2832

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/12/2015 14:25
Updated: 05/07/2019 12:41
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (59), 05/07/2019 12:41 (8)
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