National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0077
Original release date:02/12/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, 6 SP2, and and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by assigning malformed values to certain properties, as demonstrated using the by property of an animateMotion SVG element, aka "Property Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
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: TA08-043C
Name: TA08-043C
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#228569
Name: VU#228569
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019380
External Source: BID
Name: 27666
External Source: MS
Name: MS08-010
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0512
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28903
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-006.html
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080213 ZDI-08-006: Microsoft Internet Explorer SVG animateMotion.by Code Execution Vulnerability
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBST02314
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20080212 Microsoft Internet Explorer Property Memory Corruption Vulnerability
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5396
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5396
Type: Tool Signature