National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0036

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, leading to memory corruption, relagted to a "dangling pointer," aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2556 and CVE-2011-0035.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: MS

Name: MS11-003

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-003.mspx

External Source: XF

Name: ms-explorer-code-exec(64912)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64912

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0318

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0318

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025038

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025038

External Source: BID

Name: 46158

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46158

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12261

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12261

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70832

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/70832

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12261

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12261