Microsoft Silverlight up to 4.0.60129.0 Grid Control resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Microsoft Silverlight up to 4.0.60129.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Grid Control. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2011-1845. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Silverlight up to 4.0.60129.0 (Multimedia Player Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Grid Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple memory leaks in the DataGrid control implementation in Microsoft Silverlight 4 before 4.0.60310.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an application involving (1) subscriptions to an INotifyDataErrorInfo.ErrorsChanged event or (2) a TextBlock or TextBox element.

The weakness was shared 05/03/2011 with Microsoft (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-1845. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 53830 (MS KB2526954: Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 < 4.0.60310 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows.

Upgrading to version 3.0.40723.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (53830), SecurityFocus (BID 47724†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-31451†). The entry VDB-57298 is related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 53830
Nessus Name: MS KB2526954: Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 < 4.0.60310 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801935
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Silverlight Multiple Memory Leak Vulnerabilities
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Silverlight 3.0.40723.0

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04/19/2011 🔍
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03/23/2015 +1408 days 🔍
11/05/2021 +2419 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: support.microsoft.com
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2011-1845 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-1845
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-57299
SecurityFocus: 47724 - Microsoft Silverlight Prior to 4.0.60310 Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Center: 31451 - Microsoft Silverlight 4 before 4.0.60310.0 DataGrid Multiple Memory Leaks Allow Remote DoS Attack, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/05/2021 14:27
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (59), 03/22/2017 09:54 (9), 11/05/2021 14:24 (3), 11/05/2021 14:27 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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