National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2223

Overview

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 3.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the substringData method on a (1) TextNode or (2) XMLDOM object, which causes an integer overflow that leads to a buffer overflow.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#361968

Name: VU#361968

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361968

External Source: MS

Name: MS07-042

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-042.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-048/

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-048/

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2866

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2866

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018559

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018559

External Source: BID

Name: 25301

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25301

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070816 MS07-042 XMLDOM substringData() PoC

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/476747/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070814 ZDI-07-048: Microsoft Internet Explorer substringData() Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/476527/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26447

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26447

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20070814 Microsoft XML Core Services XMLDOM Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=576

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2069

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2069

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2069

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2069

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2069