Vulnerability CVE-2006-3451
Published: 2006-08-08   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 SP4 and 6 do not properly garbage collect when "multiple imports are used on a styleSheets collection" to construct a chain of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple CSS Imports Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Sam Thomas
10.08.2006

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1343
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016663
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/262004
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442578/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19316
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3212
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-026.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5
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