Vulnerability CVE-2007-0612
Published: 2007-01-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Multiple ActiveX controls in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by accessing the bgColor, fgColor, linkColor, alinkColor, vlinkColor, or defaultCharset properties in the (1) giffile, (2) htmlfile, (3) jpegfile, (4) mhtmlfile, (5) ODCfile, (6) pjpegfile, (7) pngfile, (8) xbmfile, (9) xmlfile, (10) xslfile, or (11) wdfile objects in (a) mshtml.dll; or the (12) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument or (13) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument.1 objects in (b) triedit.dll, which cause a NULL pointer dereference.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Internet Explorer 7 ActiveX bgColor property NULL pointer dereference (DoS)
Alexander Sotiro...
01.02.2007

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0547.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-January/052057.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2199
http://www.determina.com/security.research/vulnerabilities/activex-bgcolor.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458443/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22288
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31867
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