Advisory Details

November 14th, 2006

Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Float Property Memory Corruption Vulnerability

ZDI-06-041
ZDI-CAN-080

CVE ID CVE-2006-4687
CVSS SCORE
AFFECTED VENDORS Microsoft
AFFECTED PRODUCTS Internet Explorer
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['4761']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

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.

The specific vulnerability exists due to improper parsing of HTML CSS 'float' properties. By ordering specially crafted 'div' tags in a web page, memory corruption can occur leading to remote code execution.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-067.mspx
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2006-07-18 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2006-11-14 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Sam Thomas
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