National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1250

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 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, aka "Link Properties Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: MS

Name: MS11-050

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-050.mspx

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20110615 NSFOCUS SA2011-01 : Microsoft Internet Explorer Link Property Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/518445/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.nsfocus.com/en/advisories/1101.html

Hyperlink:http://www.nsfocus.com/en/advisories/1101.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12708

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12708

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12708

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12708