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Resource Management Errors

CVE-2007-0947

High
9.3/10

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, or Windows Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML objects, resulting in accessing deallocated memory of CMarkup objects, aka the second of two "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities" and a different issue than CVE-2007-0946.

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  • NETWORK
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CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Resource management errors is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to improper management of system resources. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category can lead to unexpected software behavior, loss of access, file modification, sensitive information disclosure, system crash, denial of service, and code execution.

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