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Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Parsing Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Publish date: July 21, 2015
Severity: CRITICAL
CVE Identifier: CVE-2010-3971
Advisory Date: JUL 21, 2015
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."
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1004550
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1004550 - Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Parsing Remote Code Execution
AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION
- microsoft ie 7
- microsoft ie 8
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