Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2007-0612. PoCs published by Alexander Sotirov.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer by creating an ActiveXObject with an invalid class name ('giffile') and accessing its 'bgColor' property, causing the browser to crash.
Description
Multiple ActiveX controls in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by accessing the bgColor, fgColor, linkColor, alinkColor, vlinkColor, or defaultCharset properties in the (1) giffile, (2) htmlfile, (3) jpegfile, (4) mhtmlfile, (5) ODCfile, (6) pjpegfile, (7) pngfile, (8) xbmfile, (9) xmlfile, (10) xslfile, or (11) wdfile objects in (a) mshtml.dll; or the (12) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument or (13) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument.1 objects in (b) triedit.dll, which cause a NULL pointer dereference.
Exploits (1)
This exploit triggers a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer by creating an ActiveXObject with an invalid class name ('giffile') and accessing its 'bgColor' property, causing the browser to crash.