CVE-2009-3672
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 - Remote Code Execution via STYLE Tag Memory Corruption
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2009-3672.
PoCs published by Metasploit, including Metasploit module exploits/windows/browser/ms09_072_style_object.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer's getElementsByTagName function via a heap spray technique. It achieves remote code execution by spraying the heap with shellcode and triggering the vulnerability through JavaScript manipulation of a STYLE element.
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not properly handle objects in memory that (1) were not properly initialized or (2) are deleted, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a call to the getElementsByTagName method for the STYLE tag name, selection of the single element in the returned list, and a change to the outerHTML property of this element, related to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and mshtml.dll, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this issue was originally assigned CVE-2009-4054, but Microsoft assigned a duplicate identifier of CVE-2009-3672. CVE consumers should use this identifier instead of CVE-2009-4054.
Exploits (2)
This exploit targets a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer's getElementsByTagName function via a heap spray technique. It achieves remote code execution by spraying the heap with shellcode and triggering the vulnerability through JavaScript manipulation of a STYLE element.
This Metasploit module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer's getElementsByTagName function via a heap spray technique. It targets IE6 and IE7 on various Windows versions, delivering a payload through a crafted HTML page.