CVE-2012-1879

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2012-1879	First vendor Publication	2012-06-12
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2013-03-06

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score	9.3	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	10	Attack Complexity	Medium
Cvss Expoit Score	8.6	Authentification	None Required
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Detail

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by attempting to access an undefined memory location, aka "insertAdjacentText Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1879

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

id	Name
CWE-94	Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15588

Oval ID:	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15588
Title:	insertAdjacentText Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1879)
Description:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by attempting to access an undefined memory location, aka "insertAdjacentText Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
Family:	windows	Class:	vulnerability
Reference(s):	CVE-2012-1879	Version:	3
Platform(s):	Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows 7	Product(s):	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Definition Synopsis:
IE6 and Win XP 32 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP (x86) SP3 is installed AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 6.0.2900.6212 OR IE6 and XP (x64) / 2k3 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is installed AND XP (64) / 2k3 Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition SP2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x64) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (ia64) SP2 is installed AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 6.0.3790.4986 OR IE7 and XP /2k3 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is installed AND Win XP ./ 2k3 Microsoft Windows XP (x86) SP3 is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition SP2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x64) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (ia64) SP2 is installed AND Check for LDR/GDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 7.0.6000.17110 OR Check for LDR Mshtml.dll version is greater than or equal to 7.0.6000.20000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 7.0.6000.21312 OR IE8 and XP/2K3 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is installed AND Win Vista / 2K8 Microsoft Windows XP (x86) SP3 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x64) is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition SP2 is installed AND Check for LDR/GDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.6001.19258 OR Check for LDR Check for mshtml.dll version greater than or equal to 8.0.6001.23000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.6001.23345 OR IE7 and Vista/2K8 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is installed AND Vista / 2K8 Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Itanium-Based Edition Service Pack 2 is installed AND Check for LDR/GDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 7.0.6002.18616 OR Check for LDR Mshtml.dll version is greater than or equal to 7.0.6002.22000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 7.0.6002.22838 OR IE8 and vista/2k8 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is installed AND Vista/2K8 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2 is installed AND Check for LDR/GDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.6001.19272 OR Check for LDR Check for mshtml.dll version greater than or equal to 8.0.6001.23000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.6001.23359 OR IE9 and Vista/2K8/Win7/2008 R2 Vista/2K8/Win7/R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Service Pack 1 is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit) Service Pack 1 is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Service Pack 1 is installed AND Check for LDR/GDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 9.0.8112.16446 OR Check for LDR Check for mshtml.dll version greater than or equal to 9.0.8112.20000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 9.0.8112.20551 AND Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is installed OR IE 8 and Win7 / Win 2k8 R2/ Win7 SP1 / Win 2k8 R2 SP1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is installed AND Win 7 or SP1 / 2K8 or SP1 IE8 and Win 7/2K8 R2 Win 7 / Win 2K8 R2 Microsoft Windows 7 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium-Based Edition is installed AND Check for LDR/GDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.7600.17006 OR Check for LDR Mshtml.dll version is greater than or equal 8.0.7600.20000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.7600.21198 OR Win 7 / 2K8 R2 SP1 and IE8 Win 7 / Win 2K8 R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Service Pack 1 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium-Based Edition Service Pack 1 is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit) Service Pack 1 is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Service Pack 1 is installed AND Check for LDR/GDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.7601.17824 OR Check for LDR Mshtml.dll version is greater than or equal to 8.0.7601.21000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.7601.21976

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Microsoft Ie cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:9 cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:8 cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:7 cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6	4

ExploitDB Exploits

id	Description
2012-08-02	Microsoft Internet Explorer Fixed Table Col Span Heap Overflow
2012-07-12	IE9, SharePoint, Lync toStaticHTML HTML Sanitizing Bypass
2012-06-14	MS12-037 Internet Explorer Same ID Property Deleted Object Handling Memory Co...

Metasploit Database

id	Description
2012-06-12	MS12-037 Internet Explorer Same ID Property Deleted Object Handling Memory Corruption
2012-06-12	Microsoft Internet Explorer Fixed Table Col Span Heap Overflow

Internal Sources (Detail)

Source	Url
CERT	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html
MS	http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS12-037

Alert History

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Date	Informations
2013-05-10 22:37:20	Multiple Updates
2013-03-07 13:19:47	Multiple Updates

Type	Count
Oval ID(s)	1
CPE ID(s)	4
ExploitDB Exploit(s)	3
Metasploit Exploit(s)	2

Related	Severity
TA12-164A	(Critical)
MS12-037	(Critical)

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CVE-2012-1879

Executive Summary

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

OVAL Definitions

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

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