National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0917
Original release date:03/03/2010
Last revised:03/04/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is used, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function, leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: ms-win-winhlp32-bo(56560)
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/01/ie_code_execution_bug/
External Source: BID
Name: 38473
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981169.mspx
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities10.html
External Source: MISC
Name: http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0027-msgbox-helpfile-ie.txt
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/03/01/security-advisory-981169-released.aspx
Type: Advisory
