CVE-2005-2127

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not intended for use within Internet Explorer, as originally demonstrated using the (1) DDS Library Shape Control (Msdds.dll) COM object, and other objects including (2) Blnmgrps.dll, (3) Ciodm.dll, (4) Comsvcs.dll, (5) Danim.dll, (6) Htmlmarq.ocx, (7) Mdt2dd.dll (as demonstrated using a heap corruption attack with uninitialized memory), (8) Mdt2qd.dll, (9) Mpg4ds32.ax, (10) Msadds32.ax, (11) Msb1esen.dll, (12) Msb1fren.dll, (13) Msb1geen.dll, (14) Msdtctm.dll, (15) Mshtml.dll, (16) Msoeacct.dll, (17) Msosvfbr.dll, (18) Mswcrun.dll, (19) Netshell.dll, (20) Ole2disp.dll, (21) Outllib.dll, (22) Psisdecd.dll, (23) Qdvd.dll, (24) Repodbc.dll, (25) Shdocvw.dll, (26) Shell32.dll, (27) Soa.dll, (28) Srchui.dll, (29) Stobject.dll, (30) Vdt70.dll, (31) Vmhelper.dll, and (32) Wbemads.dll, aka a variant of the COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption vulnerability.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.8
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
42.047

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 (KB896688)Windows
Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer 6 SP1 (KB896688)Windows
Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (KB896688)Windows
Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2003 (KB896688) x86 based systemsWindows
Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2003 (KB896688) x86 based systems for SP1Windows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-1255Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2003 (KB896688)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234