CVE-2005-1990 Information

Description

Internet Explorer 5.0 5.5 and 6.0 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 ActiveX controls including (1) devenum.dll (2) diactfrm.dll (3) wmm2filt.dll (4) fsusd.dll (5) dmdskmgr.dll (6) browsewm.dll (7) browseui.dll (8) shell32.dll (9) mshtml.dll (10) inetcfg.dll (11) infosoft.dll (12) query.dll (13) syncui.dll (14) clbcatex.dll (15) clbcatq.dll (16) comsvcs.dll and (17) msconf.dll which causes memory corruption aka \COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability\ a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2087.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/16373/ http://securitytracker.com/id?1014643 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/959049 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14511 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-221A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1353 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-038 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A100082 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1061 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1221 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1235 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1337