National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1531

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3; 7 for Server 2003 SP2; 7 for Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 7 for Server 2008 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via frequent calls to the getElementsByTagName function combined with the creation of an object during reordering of elements, followed by an onreadystatechange event, which triggers an access of an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-160A

Name: TA09-160A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS09-019

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-019.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-039

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-039

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1538

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1538

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022350

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022350

External Source: BID

Name: 35234

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35234

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090610 ZDI-09-039: Microsoft Internet Explorer onreadystatechange Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/504216/100/0/threaded

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6308

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6308

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 54950

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/54950

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6308

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6308