Overview
A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer. Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Description
A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer versions 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0. The <object> tag contains a "type" field used to determine how Internet Explorer should treat an object. It is possible to bypass the buffer checks on the input to the "type" field by using a specific character and cause a buffer overflow. An attacker could create an HTML file that includes a malicious <OBJECT> tag to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine. When a victim using a vulnerable version of IE, or other applications that use IE as their HTML interpreter, visits the malicious file (via web page, email message, file sharing, etc.), the attacker-supplied code will be executed. |
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user. |
Solution
Microsoft has released MS03-020 to resolve this issue. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Microsoft Security and eEye Digital Security for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2003-0344 |
| Severity Metric: | 17.47 |
| Date Public: | 2003-06-04 |
| Date First Published: | 2003-06-04 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2003-06-04 20:33 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 13 |