Microsoft Internet Explorer Concurrent Ajax Request Memory Corruption (MS09-019)
14 Jun. 2009
Summary
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page.
Vulnerable Systems:
* Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8 and earlier
The specific vulnerability exist due to improper AJAX request synchronization in Internet Explorer. When many asynchronous XMLHttpRequest are running concurrently memory corruption can occur that could be remotely exploited by a malicious attacker.
