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CVE-2010-3971

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a self-referential @import rule in a stylesheet, aka "CSS Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Published

2010-12-22T21:00:17.723

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 9.3 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	microsoft	internet_explorer	7	Yes
Application	microsoft	internet_explorer	8	Yes

References

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/110 Exploit ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/42510 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294 ([email protected])
http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/ie-vulnerability/ Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15708 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15746 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/634956 US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2488013.mspx ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45246 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024922 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3156 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0318 ([email protected])
http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-0885 Exploit ([email protected])
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-003 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12382 ([email protected])
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/110 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/42510 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/ie-vulnerability/ Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15708 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15746 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/634956 US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2488013.mspx (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45246 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024922 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3156 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0318 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-0885 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-003 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12382 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)