Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Form Value Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Publish date: July 01, 2011
  Severity: CRITICAL
  CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-0341
  Advisory Date: JUL 01, 2011

  DESCRIPTION

Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to crash the browser, which will result in a denial-of-service condition. Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP SP3 is vulnerable; other versions running on different platforms may also be affected. This issue was originally published as a buffer-overflow vulnerability that could result in remote code-execution. Further analysis and vendor reports suggest that this issue may only result in a denial-of-service condition due to stack exhaustion. This vulnerability is not exploitable to execute arbitrary code. The shell32 module in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP SP3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long VALUE attribute in an INPUT element, possibly related to a stack consumption vulnerability.

  TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION

Trend Micro Deep Security shields networks through Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) rules. Trend Micro customers using OfficeScan with Intrusion Defense Firewall (IDF) plugin are also protected from attacks using these vulnerabilities. Please refer to the filter number and filter name when applying appropriate DPI and/or IDF rules.

  SOLUTION

  Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1003254
  Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1003254 - Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Form Value Denial Of Service Vulnerability

  AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION

  • microsoft internet_explorer 7

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