CVE-2010-0917 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 when Internet Explorer is used might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483.

Reference

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/03/01/security-advisory-981169-released.aspx http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0027-msgbox-helpfile-ie.txt http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities10.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981169.mspx http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38473 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/01/ie_code_execution_bug/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56560