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Microsoft Internet Explorer swapNode Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Reference ID: SSA-1109
Publication date: 15.10.2011
Severity: critical
Discovered by: Sebastian Apelt

Affected product: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Description from ZDI advisory: 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.

References:
ZDI-11-289
CVE-2011-2000
Microsoft Security Bulletin