Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 7 resource management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 7 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was published 08/12/2008 by Yamata Li with Microsoft as MS08-045 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-2254 since 05/16/2008. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 33874 (MS08-045: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (953838)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100059 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update (MS08-045)).

Applying the patch MS08-045 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 8480.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (44093) and Tenable (33874). Similar entries are available at 3804, 3803, 3802 and 3801.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 33874
Nessus Name: MS08-045: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (953838)
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OpenVAS ID: 900030
OpenVAS Name: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (953838)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS08-045
Researcher: Yamata Li
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-2254 (🔍)
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X-Force: 44093
SecurityTracker: 1020674 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vulnerability Center: 19151 - [MS08-045] Microsoft Internet Explorer Uninitialized Memory Access Allows Remote Code Execution, Medium
SecurityFocus: 30614 - Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 31375 - Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 47414 - Microsoft IE Print Preview HTML Component Handling Unspecified Arbitrary Code Execution
Vupen: ADV-2008-2349

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/19/2008 17:08
Updated: 03/16/2021 17:36
Changes: 08/19/2008 17:08 (93), 04/07/2017 12:18 (12), 03/16/2021 17:36 (3)
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