CVE-2005-1990 (GCVE-0-2005-1990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-08-10 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:06
VLAI
Summary
Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, including (1) devenum.dll, (2) diactfrm.dll, (3) wmm2filt.dll, (4) fsusd.dll, (5) dmdskmgr.dll, (6) browsewm.dll, (7) browseui.dll, (8) shell32.dll, (9) mshtml.dll, (10) inetcfg.dll, (11) infosoft.dll, (12) query.dll, (13) syncui.dll, (14) clbcatex.dll, (15) clbcatq.dll, (16) comsvcs.dll, and (17) msconf.dll, which causes memory corruption, aka "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2087.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/959049 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14511 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/16373/ third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-221A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014643 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1353 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2005-08-09 00:00
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