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Sid
16067

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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. 

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Detailed Information:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 through 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted website using Javascript that creates, modifies, deletes, and accesses document objects using the tags property, which triggers heap corruption, related to uninitialized or deleted objects, a different issue than CVE-2007-3902 and CVE-2007-3903, and a variant of "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

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Affected Systems:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2600
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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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-2007-5344:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2007-5344
  
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