Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not intended for use within Internet Explorer, as originally demonstrated using the (1) DDS Library Shape Control (Msdds.dll) COM object, and other objects including (2) Blnmgrps.dll, (3) Ciodm.dll, (4) Comsvcs.dll, (5) Danim.dll, (6) Htmlmarq.ocx, (7) Mdt2dd.dll (as demonstrated using a heap corruption attack with uninitialized memory), (8) Mdt2qd.dll, (9) Mpg4ds32.ax, (10) Msadds32.ax, (11) Msb1esen.dll, (12) Msb1fren.dll, (13) Msb1geen.dll, (14) Msdtctm.dll, (15) Mshtml.dll, (16) Msoeacct.dll, (17) Msosvfbr.dll, (18) Mswcrun.dll, (19) Netshell.dll, (20) Ole2disp.dll, (21) Outllib.dll, (22) Psisdecd.dll, (23) Qdvd.dll, (24) Repodbc.dll, (25) Shdocvw.dll, (26) Shell32.dll, (27) Soa.dll, (28) Srchui.dll, (29) Stobject.dll, (30) Vdt70.dll, (31) Vmhelper.dll, and (32) Wbemads.dll, aka a variant of the "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption vulnerability."
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET - 'msdds.dll' Remote Code Execution EDB-26167 · remote · Aug 17, 2005 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- VU#959049 third-party-advisory
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-08-18
- 20070606 IE 6/Microsoft Html Popup Window (mshtml.dll) DoS mailing-list
- 72 third-party-advisory
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf
- TA05-347A third-party-advisory
- MS05-052 vendor-advisory
- 15061 vdb-entry
- 17223 third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1454 vdb-entry signature
- 16480 third-party-advisory
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/906267.mspx
- microsoft-ie-mshtml-dos(34754) vdb-entry
- 17172 third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1538 vdb-entry signature
- Win-msdss-command-execution(21895) vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1535 vdb-entry signature
- 14594 vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1468 vdb-entry signature
- 17509 third-party-advisory
- TA06-220A third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1464 vdb-entry signature
- VU#740372 third-party-advisory
- VU#898241 third-party-advisory
- 1014727 vdb-entry
- TA05-284A third-party-advisory
- ADV-2005-1450 vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1155 vdb-entry signature