National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1255

Overview

The Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions (aka HTML+TIME) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 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, aka "Time Element Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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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: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12227

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12227

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 72947

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/72947

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/14/ms11-050-ie9-is-better.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/14/ms11-050-ie9-is-better.aspx

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12227

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12227