Information disclosure in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2012-1873
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 9 does not properly create and initialize string data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML document, aka "Null Byte Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
EPSS: 0.183 (96.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 7, 8, 9
- 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, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)