National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0057

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to bypass the Kill bit settings for dangerous ActiveX controls via unknown vectors involving crafted HTML, which can expose the browser to attacks that would otherwise be prevented by the Kill bit setting. NOTE: CERT/CC claims that MS05-054 fixes this issue, but it is not described in MS05-054.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#998297

Name: VU#998297

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/998297

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-054.mspx

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-054.mspx

External Source: XF

Name: ie-activex-killbit-bypass(24379)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24379

External Source: BID

Name: 16409

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16409

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 23657

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/23657