Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2010-2557
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 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."
EPSS: 0.275 (97.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6
- Microsoft Windows_server_2003
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (Tool Signature, signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)