From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jul 01 2005 - 04:04:02 CDT

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TITLE:
Internet Explorer "javaprxy.dll" Memory Corruption Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15891

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15891/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/11/
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
http://secunia.com/product/10/
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
http://secunia.com/product/9/

DESCRIPTION:
SEC Consult has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet
Explorer, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the javaprxy.dll COM object being
instantiated incorrectly in Internet Explorer via the object tag.
This can be exploited via a malicious web site to cause a memory
corruption.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends setting Internet and Local intranet security
zone settings to "High".

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
sk0L and Martin Eiszner, SEC Consult.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/903144.mspx

SEC Consult:
http://www.sec-consult.com/184.html

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