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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2010-3971 EUVD-2010-3948GHSA-r6fx-qpgx-pg2w

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll, as used in…

Published Dec 22, 2010 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by microsoft

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a self-referential @import rule in a stylesheet, aka "CSS Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 3

GitHub 1 repository

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