CVE-2010-3971

Summary

CVECVE-2010-3971
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermicrosoft
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-12-22 21:00:17 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a self-referential @import rule in a stylesheet, aka "CSS Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
When A DoS Isn't A DoS | BreakingPoint af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.breakingpointsystems.com Exploit
Internet Explorer CSS Import Rule Processing Use-After-Free Vulnerability - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
ASA-2011-024 (2482017) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
Assessing the risk of public issues currently being tracked by the MSRC - Security Research & Defense - Site Home - TechNet Blogs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.technet.com
Internet Explorer 8 CSS Parser Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Exploit
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Parsing Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-003 - Critical | Microsoft Docs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.microsoft.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Full Disclosure: IE CSS parser dos bug af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit
Internet Explorer 8 CSS Parser Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Exploit
Your request has been blocked. This could be due to several reasons. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.microsoft.com
Microsoft Internet Explorer Recursive CSS Import Memory Corruption Error Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#634956 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
IE8 CSS解析拒绝服务漏洞 | WooYun-2010-00885 | WooYun.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.wooyun.org Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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