National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1050

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long (1) SRC or (2) NAME attributes in IFRAME, FRAME, and EMBED elements, as originally discovered using the mangleme utility, aka "the IFRAME vulnerability" or the "HTML Elements Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA04-336A

Name: TA04-336A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-336A.html

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA04-315A

Name: TA04-315A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-315A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#842160

Name: VU#842160

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/842160

External Source: XF

Name: ie-iframe-src-name-bo(17889)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17889

External Source: BID

Name: 11515

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11515

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20041024 python does mangleme (with IE bugs!)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/379261

External Source: MS

Name: MS04-040

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-040.mspx

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 12959

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/12959/

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20041102 MSIE <IFRAME> and <FRAME> tag NAME property bufferoverflow PoC

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109942758911846&w=2

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20041102 MSIE <IFRAME> and <FRAME> tag NAME property bufferoverflow PoC

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109942758911846&w=2

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20041025 python does mangleme (with IE bugs!)

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/028035.html

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20041023 python does mangleme (with IE bugs!)

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-October/028009.html

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1294

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1294

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1294