CVE-2010-3971 (GCVE-0-2010-3971)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-12-22 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 03:26
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Use-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."
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