CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3672
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not properly handle objects in memory that (1) were not properly initialized or (2) are deleted, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a call to the getElementsByTagName method for the STYLE tag name, selection of the single element in the returned list, and a change to the outerHTML property of this element, related to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and mshtml.dll, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this issue was originally assigned CVE-2009-4054, but Microsoft assigned a duplicate identifier of CVE-2009-3672. CVE consumers should use this identifier instead of CVE-2009-4054.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37448 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/515749 US Government Resource
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/977981.mspx Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507984/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37085 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023293 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-internet-explorer-exploit-published www.symantec.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3301 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-072 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6381 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37448 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/515749 US Government Resource
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/977981.mspx Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507984/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37085 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023293 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-internet-explorer-exploit-published www.symantec.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-342A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3301 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-072 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6381 oval.cisecurity.org