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 [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/1559
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/10913
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Matthew Murphy
ChangeLog
2006-04-27 : Initial release
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