CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3971
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-12-22
- 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-399
Description
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."
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 8
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/110 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42510 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294 support.avaya.com
- http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/ie-vulnerability/ Exploit
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15708 Exploit
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15746 Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/634956 US Government Resource
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2488013.mspx www.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45246 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024922 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3156 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0318 www.vupen.com
- http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-0885 Exploit
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-003 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12382 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/110 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42510 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294 support.avaya.com
- http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/ie-vulnerability/ Exploit
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15708 Exploit
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15746 Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/634956 US Government Resource
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2488013.mspx www.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45246 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024922 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3156 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0318 www.vupen.com
- http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-0885 Exploit
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-003 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12382 oval.cisecurity.org