A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a race condition in the processing of security dialogs when prompting a user to install/execute an ActiveX control, which could be exploited by remote attackers to manipulate the dialog box and remotely compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted Web page and perform certain actions (e.g. write a specific text in a text field) that will cause a malicious ActiveX control to be inadvertently installed and/or executed [...]
Affected Products
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows XP SP1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP3
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 on Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Matthew Murphy
ChangeLog
2006-04-27 : Initial release
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