HTTP: Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Memory Corruption
This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer's Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing. Attackers can supply a maliciously crafted HTML document to cause IE to execute arbitrary code.
Extended Description
A heap overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer. It is reported that the issue presents itself when a comment character sequence that is not terminated is encountered after a STYLE tag. This issue could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the client user. The attacker would likely create a malicious HTML page and host it on a site. The attacker would then attempt to entice a user to visit the malicious page to carry out a successful attack.
Affected Products
Avaya s8100_media_servers,Microsoft internet_explorer
Short Name
HTTP:STC:IE:CSS-MEMORY-CORRUPT
Severity
Minor
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
HTTP
Keywords
CSS CVE-2004-0842 Corruption Explorer Internet Memory Microsoft bid:10816
Release Date
10/14/2004
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3375
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors
Avaya
Microsoft
CVSS Score
7.5