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CVE-2010-3971

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

Published
Last modified
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Not listed in CISA KEV
3 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module, 1 proof of concept on GitHub

Summary

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."

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-15708, EDB-15746, EDB-16533

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 21

kb.cert.org

microsoft.com

Exploit-DB

blogs.technet.com

breakingpointsystems.com

support.avaya.com

vupen.com

docs.microsoft.com

securitytracker.com

wooyun.org

seclists.org

securityfocus.com

oval.cisecurity.org

secunia.com

GitHub · rapid7/metasploit-framework

GitHub · nektra/CVE-2010-3971-hotpatch