CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1255
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-06-16
- 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-908
Description
The Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions (aka HTML+TIME) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, aka "Time Element Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/14/ms11-050-ie9-is-better.aspx Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/72947 Broken Link
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-050 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12227 Tool Signature
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/14/ms11-050-ie9-is-better.aspx Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/72947 Broken Link
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-050 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12227 Tool Signature