Advisory Details

April 12th, 2016

Microsoft Internet Explorer CTableLayout AddRow Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2016-0159
CVSS SCORE	6.8, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Microsoft
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Internet Explorer
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote 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 or open a malicious file. The vulnerability relates to how Internet Explorer keeps track of table rows when performing layout of HTML tables. By manipulating a document's elements an attacker can cause Internet Explorer to write beyond the end of an array of pointers to CTableRow objects. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-037
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-11-24 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2016-04-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	B6BEB4D5E828CF0CCB47BB24AAC22515

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