CVE-2004-0216
HIGH severity · CVSS 10
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Integer overflow in the Install Engine (inseng.dll) for Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious website or HTML email with a long .CAB file name, which triggers the integer overflow when calculating a buffer length and leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)49%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637760 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637760Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-293A.htmlPatch
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109760693512754&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110616383332055&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=110619893620517&w=2
- http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/msinsengfull.txt
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-038
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17620