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Secunia Research 09/05/2007

- Internet Explorer HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software.......................................... ..........1
Severity.......................................... ...................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability..................................... ....4
Solution.......................................... ...................5
Time Table............................................. ..............6
Credits........................................... ...................7
References........................................ ...................8
About Secunia........................................... .............9
Verification...................................... ..................10

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1) Affected Software

* Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

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2) Severity

Rating: Moderately Critical
Impact: System Access
Where: Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

Internet Explorer 7 provides improved navigation through tabbed
browsing, web search right from the toolbar, advanced printing, easy
discovery, reading and subscription to RSS feeds, and much more.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...e/default.mspx

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of HTML
objects as a CMarkup object is used in certain cases after it has been
freed. This can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted
web page.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution

Apply patches (see the Microsoft security bulletin for details).

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6) Time Table

18/01/2007 - Vendor notified.
19/01/2007 - Vendor response.
09/05/2007 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by JJ Reyes, Secunia Research.

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8) References

MS07-027 (KB931768):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS07-027.mspx

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-0947 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-36/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
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