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Credit:
The information has been provided by Sebastian Apelt.
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-289/
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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 way Internet Explorer handles calls to the method swapNode(). When a call to swapNode is issued on an node within a document that has two body nodes, Internet Explorer frees an attribute field for one of the body nodes and then later re-uses the freed field during the node swap. This behavior could result in remote code execution under the context of the current user.
Patch Availability:
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-081
CVE Information:
CVE-2011-2000
Disclosure Timeline:
2011-07-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2011-10-15 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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