National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5344
Original release date:12/12/2007
Last revised:03/07/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 through 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted website using Javascript that creates, modifies, deletes, and accesses document objects using the tags property, which triggers heap corruption, related to uninitialized or deleted objects, a different issue than CVE-2007-3902 and CVE-2007-3903, and a variant of "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-345A
Name: TA07-345A
External Source: MS
Name: MS07-069
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: ie-element-code-execution(38715)
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-075.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-4184
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 26817
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBST02299
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT071506
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20071211 ZDI-07-075: Microsoft Internet Explorer Element Tags Vulnerability
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019078
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28036
Type: Advisory
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4480
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4480
Type: Tool Signature
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4480
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5