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Credit:
The information has been provided by Stephen Fewer .
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-248/
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Vulnerable Systems:
* Microsoft Internet Explorer
User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists within the part of the application that is responsible for handling STYLE elements. By creating a STYLE element with an invalid behavior, an attacker can force an object of invalid type to be called, resulting in corruption of heap memory. This can be leveraged by an attacker to achieve code execution under the context of the application.
Patch Availability:
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS11-057.mspx
CVE Information:
CVE-2011-1964
Disclosure Timeline:
2011-05-25 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2011-08-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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