RCE in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2009-3673

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, leading to memory corruption, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.254 (97.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.0.1, 6, 7
Microsoft Windows_2000
Microsoft Windows_7
Microsoft Windows_server_2003
Microsoft Windows_server_2008
Microsoft Windows_vista
Microsoft Windows_xp
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)