A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an error in the way the VBScript and JScript scripting engines decode scripts in Web pages to allow the scripts to load into memory in order to run, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page [...]
Affected Products
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)
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Peter Ferrie (Symantec).
ChangeLog
2008-04-08 : Initial release
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