CVE-2010-1127

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not initialize certain data structures during execution of the createElement method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by setting the (1) outerHTML or (2) value property of an object returned by createElement.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2010-03-26

Last modified

2024-09-17

Affected products

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-01/0237.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-01/0278.html
• http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/7731