National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2949

Overview

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to change the location property of a frame via the String data type, and use a frame from a different domain to observe domain-independent events, as demonstrated by observing onkeydown events with caballero-listener. NOTE: according to Microsoft, this is a duplicate of CVE-2008-2947, possibly a different attack vector.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#516627

Name: VU#516627

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/516627

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1941

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1941/references

External Source: MISC

Name: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc405107.aspx#EHD

Hyperlink:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc405107.aspx#EHD

External Source: MISC

Name: http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2008/05/browsers-ghost-busters.html

Hyperlink:http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2008/05/browsers-ghost-busters.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348

Hyperlink:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348