Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Pointer Code Execution Vulnerability (MS09-019)
11 Jun. 2009
Summary
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page.
Vulnerable Systems:
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Immune Systems:
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and prior
The specific flaw exists during the rendering of an HTML page with malformed row property references, resulting in a dangling pointer which can be abused to execute arbitrary code. Internet Explorer 7 is not affected.