Buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2010-2560
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 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 "HTML Layout Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.242 (97.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 8, 6, 7
- Microsoft Windows_7
- Microsoft Windows_server_2003
- Microsoft Windows_server_2008 — versions r2
- Microsoft Windows_vista
- 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 (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)