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Sid
16008

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. Complete admin access.

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Detailed Information:
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.

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Affected Systems:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Simple. Exploits exist.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2007-0947:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2007-0947
  
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