CVE-2010-0555 Information

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 6 6 SP1 7 and 8 does not prevent rendering of non-HTML local files as HTML documents which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read arbitrary files via vectors involving the product’s use of text/html as the default content type for files that are encountered after a redirection aka the URLMON sniffing vulnerability a variant of CVE-2009-1140 and related to CVE-2008-1448.

Reference

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152 http://osvdb.org/62157 http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056