National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2127

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not intended for use within Internet Explorer, as originally demonstrated using the (1) DDS Library Shape Control (Msdds.dll) COM object, and other objects including (2) Blnmgrps.dll, (3) Ciodm.dll, (4) Comsvcs.dll, (5) Danim.dll, (6) Htmlmarq.ocx, (7) Mdt2dd.dll (as demonstrated using a heap corruption attack with uninitialized memory), (8) Mdt2qd.dll, (9) Mpg4ds32.ax, (10) Msadds32.ax, (11) Msb1esen.dll, (12) Msb1fren.dll, (13) Msb1geen.dll, (14) Msdtctm.dll, (15) Mshtml.dll, (16) Msoeacct.dll, (17) Msosvfbr.dll, (18) Mswcrun.dll, (19) Netshell.dll, (20) Ole2disp.dll, (21) Outllib.dll, (22) Psisdecd.dll, (23) Qdvd.dll, (24) Repodbc.dll, (25) Shdocvw.dll, (26) Shell32.dll, (27) Soa.dll, (28) Srchui.dll, (29) Stobject.dll, (30) Vdt70.dll, (31) Vmhelper.dll, and (32) Wbemads.dll, aka a variant of the "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption vulnerability."

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA05-284A

Name: TA05-284A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-284A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#959049

Name: VU#959049

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/959049

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#740372

Name: VU#740372

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/740372

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-220A

Name: TA06-220A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA05-347A

Name: TA05-347A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-347A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#898241

Name: VU#898241

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/898241

External Source: BID

Name: 14594

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14594

External Source: MS

Name: MS05-052

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-052.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2005-1450

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/1450

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1014727

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1014727

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16480

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16480

External Source: XF

Name: Win-msdss-command-execution(21895)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21895

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/906267.mspx

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/906267.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-08-18

Hyperlink:http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-08-18

External Source: XF

Name: microsoft-ie-mshtml-dos(34754)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34754

External Source: BID

Name: 15061

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15061

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070606 IE 6/Microsoft Html Popup Window (mshtml.dll) DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/470690/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf

External Source: SREASON

Name: 72

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/72

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17509

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17509

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17223

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17223

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17172

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17172

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1538

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1538

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1538

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1535

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1535

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1535

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1468

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1468

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1468

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1464

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1464

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1464

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1454

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1454

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1454

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1155

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1155

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1155