CVE-2010-3971

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a self-referential @import rule in a stylesheet, aka "CSS Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12382

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-003

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0318

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3156

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024922

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45246

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2488013.mspx

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/634956

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294

http://secunia.com/advisories/42510

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3