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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2010-0492

Severity High
Score 8.1/10

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in mstime.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the TIME2 behavior, the CTimeAction object, and destruction of markup, leading to memory corruption, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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Advisory Timeline

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