National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0806

Overview

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Peer Objects component (aka iepeers.dll) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving access to an invalid pointer after the deletion of an object, as exploited in the wild in March 2010, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Description

Further information on this vulnerability can be found at the following link from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981374

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#744549

Name: VU#744549

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/744549

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-089A

Name: TA10-089A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-089A.html

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-068A

Name: TA10-068A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-068A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS10-018

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-018.mspx

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981374.mspx

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981374.mspx

External Source: XF

Name: ms-ie-useafterfree-code-execution(56772)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/56772

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0744

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0744

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0567

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0567

External Source: BID

Name: 38615

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38615

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38860

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38860

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8446

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8446

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 62810

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/62810

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/03/09/security-advisory-981374-released.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/03/09/security-advisory-981374-released.aspx

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8446

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8446