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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0947

Original release date:05/08/2007
Last revised:04/12/2011
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, or Windows Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML objects, resulting in accessing deallocated memory of CMarkup objects, aka the second of two "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities" and a different issue than CVE-2007-0946.

Description

FrSIRT has noted the following: Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:9.3 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-128A
Name: TA07-128A
Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html
External Source: BID
Name: 23772
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23772
External Source: MS
Name: MS07-027
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-027.mspx
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-36/advisory/
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-36/advisory/
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23769
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23769
External Source: XF
Name: ie-html-memory-code-execution-variant(33256)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33256
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1712
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1712
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018019
Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018019
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT071422
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT071422
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 34403
Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/34403
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2048
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2048
Type: Tool Signature
Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2048

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2048
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2048

Vulnerable software and versions

Nav control imageConfiguration 1
line trunkNav control imageAND
line trunkspacerNav control imageOR
line trunkspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:sp1
line trunkspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:sp2
line trunkspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista
line trunkspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp2
line trunkspacerNav control imageOR
line trunkspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6
line trunkspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:7.0
Nav control imageConfiguration 2
line trunkNav control imageAND
line trunkspacerNav control imageOR
line trunkspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:sp1
line trunkspacerNav control imageOR
line trunkspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6
line trunkspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:7.0
Nav control imageConfiguration 3
line trunkNav control imageAND
line trunkspacerNav control imageOR
line trunkspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:sp2
line trunkspacerNav control imageOR
line trunkspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6
line trunkspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:7.0
Nav control imageConfiguration 4
spacerNav control imageAND
spacerspacerNav control imageOR
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista
spacerspacerNav control imageOR
spacerspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:7.0
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0947