Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system.
The first issue is caused by a memory corruption error when processing specially crafted Web pages with certain HTML layout combinations, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected browser or execute arbitrary code via a malicious web page [...]
Affected Products
Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Itanium)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (Itanium)
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Shane Macaulay and Riley Hassell (Security Objectives), ZDI, hyy, iDefense Labs, and Venustech (ADLABS).
ChangeLog
2008-02-12 : Initial release
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