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zdiPeter 'corelanc0d3r' Van Eeckhoutte - Corelan - www.corelan.beZDI-14-140
HistoryMay 21, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

(0Day) Microsoft Internet Explorer CMarkup Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2014-05-2100:00:00
Peter 'corelanc0d3r' Van Eeckhoutte - Corelan - www.corelan.be
www.zerodayinitiative.com
44

0.682 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

98.0%

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 handling of CMarkup objects. The allocation initially happens within CMarkup::CreateInitialMarkup. The free happens after the execution of certain JavaScript code followed by a CollectGarbage call. By manipulating a document’s elements an attacker can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.