CVE-2010-3886 (GCVE-0-2010-3886)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-10-08 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:26
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Summary
The CTimeoutEventList::InsertIntoTimeoutList function in Microsoft mshtml.dll uses a certain pointer value as part of producing Timer ID values for the setTimeout and setInterval methods in VBScript and JScript, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the heap memory addresses used by an application, as demonstrated by the Internet Explorer 8 application.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2010-06-30 00:00
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