Vulnerability CVE-2011-0346
Published: 2011-01-07   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ReleaseInterface function in MSHTML.DLL in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors related to the DOM implementation and the BreakAASpecial and BreakCircularMemoryReferences functions, as demonstrated by cross_fuzz, aka "MSHTML Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Multiple Vendors (Internet Explorer, Mozilla etc) remote code execution
Michal Zalewski
12.01.2011

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-12/0698.html
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-crossfuzz-potential-0-day-in.html
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/fuzzer_timeline.txt
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/known_vuln.txt
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/msie_crash.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/427980
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515506/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45639
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024940
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0026
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-018
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64482
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11882
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