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zdiSebastian Apelt (www.siberas.de)ZDI-11-289
HistoryOct 15, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Internet Explorer swapNode Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2011-10-1500:00:00
Sebastian Apelt (www.siberas.de)
www.zerodayinitiative.com
21

EPSS

0.847

Percentile

98.5%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the way Internet Explorer handles calls to the method swapNode(). When a call to swapNode is issued on an node within a document that has two body nodes, Internet Explorer frees an attribute field for one of the body nodes and then later re-uses the freed field during the node swap. This behavior could result in remote code execution under the context of the current user.