Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7/8 race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7/8 and classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2010-2558. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7/8 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to an object in memory, aka "Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The issue has been introduced in 03/05/2008. The weakness was presented 08/11/2010 as MS10-053 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is available at technet.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-2558. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 889 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 48290 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100089 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update (MS10-053)).

Applying the patch MS10-053 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (60713), Tenable (48290), SecurityFocus (BID 42289†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-26777†). See VDB-4164, VDB-54340, VDB-54339 and VDB-54337 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Base Score: 6.3
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Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Nessus ID: 48290
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OpenVAS ID: 901139
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities (2183461)
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Patch: MS10-053
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS10-053
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2010-2558 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-2558
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-54338

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X-Force: 60713
SecurityFocus: 42289
Vulnerability Center: 26777 - [MS10-053] Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution due to Race Condition Memory Corruption, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2015 14:37
Updated: 09/22/2021 08:57
Changes: 03/19/2015 14:37 (46), 04/07/2017 12:10 (20), 09/22/2021 08:54 (2), 09/22/2021 08:56 (7), 09/22/2021 08:57 (1)
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