Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2007-0947. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7 (Web Browser). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, or Windows Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML objects, resulting in accessing deallocated memory of CMarkup objects, aka the second of two "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities" and a different issue than CVE-2007-0946.

The bug was discovered 01/18/2007. The weakness was disclosed 05/08/2007 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2007-0947. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2238 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25166 (MS07-027: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (931768)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100046 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update (MS07-027)).

Upgrading to version 8 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (25166), SecurityFocus (BID 23772†) and OSVDB (34403†). The entries VDB-3059, VDB-36629, VDB-36628 and VDB-36626 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 25166
Nessus Name: MS07-027: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (931768)
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OpenVAS ID: 102056
OpenVAS Name: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (931768)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Internet Explorer 8

Timelineinfo

03/22/2001 🔍
01/18/2007 +2128 days 🔍
02/14/2007 +26 days 🔍
05/08/2007 +82 days 🔍
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03/13/2015 +2865 days 🔍
06/13/2025 +3745 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-0947 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-0947
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-36627

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X-Force: 33256
SecurityFocus: 23772
OSVDB: 34403 - Microsoft IE HTML CMarkup Objects Unspecified Memory Corruption

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 02:56 PM
Updated: 06/13/2025 02:03 PM
Changes: 03/13/2015 02:56 PM (46), 04/07/2017 12:08 PM (13), 07/14/2021 04:01 PM (3), 07/14/2021 04:06 PM (7), 07/14/2021 04:14 PM (2), 07/14/2021 04:22 PM (2), 06/13/2025 02:03 PM (24)
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