PT-2009-3705 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer 6+3

Haifei Li · Published 2009-06-10 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2009-1141

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2

Description A remote code execution issue exists due to the way Internet Explorer displays certain Web pages, potentially leading to system memory corruption when encountering unexpected method calls to HTML objects. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code if a user visits a specially crafted Web site, potentially gaining the same user rights as the logged-on user.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1141

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 6

Windows Server 2003

Windows Xp

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1141 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1141 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1538 · Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-019 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/504207/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/MS09-019 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022350 · Note
• http://fortiguardcenter.com/advisory/FGA-2009-22.html · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5554 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html · Note