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Sid
16311

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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 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a call to the getElementsByTagName method for the STYLE tag name, selection of the single element in the returned list, and a change to the outerHTML property of this element.  NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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Affected Systems:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

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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-2009-4054:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-4054
  
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