Vulmon
Since November I have been releasing details on all vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers that I had not released before. I will try to
continue to publish all my old vulnerabilities, including those not in
web-browser, as long as I can find some time to do so. If you find this
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This is the twenty-fourth entry in the series. This information is
available in more detail on my blog at
http://blog.skylined.nl/20161202001.html. There you can find a repro
that triggered this issue in addition to the information below.
Today's release is interesting to me personally, as this was the first
bug I sold as a bug bounty hunter after I quit my job at Google to live
off security bug bounties. Unfortunately, this was quite some time ago,
before I had proper tools or incentive to analyze the issues I was
finding, so there aren't many details in this release.
Follow me on http://twitter.com/berendjanwever for daily browser bugs.
MSIE 9 CDoc::ExecuteScriptUri use-after-free
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(MS13-009, CVE-2013-0019)
Synopsis
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A specially crafted web-page can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability
in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. I did not investigate this
vulnerability thoroughly, so I cannot speculate on the potential impact
or exploitability.
Known affected software and attack vectors
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* Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
An attacker would need to get a target user to open a specially
crafted web-page. Disabling JavaScript does not prevent an attacker
from triggering the vulnerable code path.
Description
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It appears I either did not analyze this issue (probably), or misplaced
my analysis (probably not), as I cannot find any details in my archives,
other than a repro and a HTML bug report created by a predecessor to
BugId (https://github.com/SkyLined/BugId).
From the information provided by ZDI in their advisory, and Microsoft in
their bulletin, as well as the bug report, it seems to have been a
use-after-free vulnerability. Unfortunately, that is all the analysis I
can provide.
Time-line
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* June 2012: This vulnerability was found through fuzzing.
* June 2012: This vulnerability was submitted to ZDI.
* July 2012: This vulnerability was acquired by ZDI.
* September 2012: This vulnerability was disclosed to Microsoft by ZDI.
* February 2013: Microsoft addresses this vulnerability in MS13-009.
* December 2016: Details of this vulnerability are released.
Cheers,
SkyLined
Repro.html
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Repro.xml
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