National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0217

Overview

The wininet.dll FTP client code in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP server response of a specific length that causes a terminating null byte to be written outside of a buffer, which causes heap corruption.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#613564

Name: VU#613564

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/613564

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-044A

Name: TA07-044A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS07-016

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-016.mspx

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017642

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017642

External Source: BID

Name: 22489

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22489

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 31892

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/31892

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-0584

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/0584

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24156

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24156

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20070213 Microsoft 'wininet.dll' FTP Reply Null Termination Heap Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=473

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070309 MS07-016 FTP Response DOS PoC

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/462303/100/0/threaded

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1141

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1141

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1141