VDB-85073 · CVE-2007-0099 · BID 21872

Microsoft Internet Explorer denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer (Web Browser) (affected version not known) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 01/04/2007 by Michal Zalewski (Full-Disclosure). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-0099. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 34744 (MS08-069: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955218)), 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 90466 (Microsoft XML Core Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS08-069)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (34744). See 2804, 44976 and 44975 for similar entries.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 34744
Nessus Name: MS08-069: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955218)
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01/09/2007 +1 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Michal Zalewski
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2007-0099 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 21872 - Microsoft XML Core Services Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 23655
OSVDB: 32627 - Microsoft IE msxml3 Module Nested Tag Race Condition DoS

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Created: 05/08/2016 21:39
Updated: 08/09/2022 07:35
Changes: 05/08/2016 21:39 (50), 05/07/2019 12:44 (4), 08/09/2022 07:22 (2), 08/09/2022 07:29 (7), 08/09/2022 07:35 (2)
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