Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in the way HTML Objects Handle Unexpected Method Calls Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Informations
Name KB917077 First vendor Publication 2006-03-23
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2006-04-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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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 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of a vulnerability. We have issued a security bulletin to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review the security bulletin . The vulnerability addressed is the “DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2006-1359”.


Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/917077.mspx

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1178
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1178
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (Server 2003)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003
 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1657
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1657
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (Server 2003,SP1)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003
 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1678
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1678
Title: IE 5.01 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
 Version: 8
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1702
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1702
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (Win2K/XP,SP1)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
 Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:985
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:985
Title: IE6 DHTML Method Call Memory Corruption (WinXP)
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1359
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP
 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Application 1

SAINT Exploits

Description Link
Internet Explorer createTextRange memory corruption More info here

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
24050 Microsoft IE createTextRange() Function Arbitrary Code Execution

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary commands. The issue is triggered due to a memory corruption error when processing a specially crafted "createTextRange()" call associated with a "checkbox" object. It is possible that the flaw may allow attackers to remotely take complete control of an affected system resulting in a loss of integrity.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 18313 - Revision : 6 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17781 - Revision : 4 - Type : SPECIFIC-THREATS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17263 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17262 - Revision : 6 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 17261 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 16690 - Revision : 9 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange code execution attempt
RuleID : 16035 - Revision : 12 - Type : BROWSER-IE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-04-11 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the web client.
File : smb_nt_ms06-013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO