VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-0050

critical
Published 2015-02-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and 9 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-2014-8967 and CVE-2015-0044.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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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

EDB-40841 dos windows verified
Skylined · 2016-11-28

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 - MSHTML 'SRun­Pointer::Span­Qualifier/Run­Type' Out-Of-Bounds Read (MS15-009)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8
windows microsoftinternet_explorer9

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.