Technical Description

A critical vulnerability was identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to a memory corruption error when instantiating the "Msdds.dll" (Microsoft Design Tools Diagram Surface) object as an ActiveX control, which could be exploited by an attacker to take complete control of an affected system via a specially crafted Web page [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/1450
http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20050817.IE-Msddsdll-0day.php
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/906267.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-052.mspx
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2049

Credits

Vulnerability reported by an anonymous person

ChangeLog

2005-08-17 : Initial release
2005-08-17 : Updated affected products (Microsoft Visual Studio)
2005-08-18 : Updated affected products (Microsoft Office)
2005-08-18 : Microsoft Security Advisory (906267)
2005-08-19 : Updated affected products
2005-08-25 : Updated affected products (Msdds.dll 7.0.9064.9143)
2005-10-10 : Updated Solution (MS05-052)

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