CVE-2010-3971 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 and other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a self-referential @import rule in a stylesheet aka \CSS Memory Corruption Vulnerability.\

Reference

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/110 http://secunia.com/advisories/42510 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294 http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/ie-vulnerability/ http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15708 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15746 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/634956 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2488013.mspx http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45246 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024922 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3156 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0318 http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-0885 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-003 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A12382