Buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2010-0917

Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is used, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function, leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.243 (97.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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