Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2007-0217
The wininet.dll FTP client code in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP server response of a specific length that causes a terminating null byte to be written outside of a buffer, which causes heap corruption.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.584 (99.1th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 99th percentile — 99.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.584 · newest: 0.584 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.01, 6.0
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server — versions gold, sp1
- Microsoft Windows Xp
References
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php (third-party-advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/31892 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22489 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/613564 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0584 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/24156 (third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-016 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462303/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)