Summary
This host has Microsoft Internet Explorer installed, which is prone to HTTP request splitting/smuggling and HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities.
Impact
Successful exploitation allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking user into visiting a specially crafted web page and to read data from a Web page in another domain in Internet Explorer. Attackers can use above issues to poison web caches, steal credentials, launch cross-site scripting, HTML-injection, and session-hijacking attacks.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Run Windows Update and update the listed hotfixes or download and update mentioned hotfixes in the advisory from the below link.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-031.mspx
Insight
The flaws are due to
- a memory corruption error while processing a Web page that contains certain unexpected method calls to HTML objects.
- failure of setRequestHeader method of the XMLHttpRequest object to block dangerous HTTP request headers when certain 8-bit character sequences are appended to a header name.
Affected
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 & 6 SP1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows 2003 and XP Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows 2003 and XP Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on MS Windows 2008 and Vista
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1442, CVE-2008-1544 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Related Vulnerabilities
- Microsoft DirectShow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (977935)
- Microsoft .NET Framework Multiple Vulnerabilities (2861561)
- Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (953838)
- Microsoft .NET Framework Privilege Elevation Vulnerability (2769324)
- Microsoft .NET Framework and Silverlight Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (2604930)