National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3451

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-220A

Name: TA06-220A

Type: Patch Information

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

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#262004

Name: VU#262004

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/262004

External Source: MS

Name: MS06-042

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-042.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-026.html

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-026.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060808 ZDI-06-026: Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple CSS Imports Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/442578/100/0/threaded

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3212

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3212

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21396

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21396

External Source: BID

Name: 19316

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19316

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 27854

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/27854

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016663

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016663

External Source: SREASON

Name: 1343

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1343

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5