Intrusion PreventionMS.IE.HTML.Decoding.UTF-8.Memory.Corruption
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a buffer-overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
The vulnerability is caused by the application's inability to properly handle specially crafted UTF-8 encoded HTML documents. Remote attackers may exploit this to execute arbitrary code.
Affected Products
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Impact
System compromise
Recommended Actions
Apply the appropriate patch from the vendor's web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-021.mspx
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 13285 |
| Created | Oct 17, 2006 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2006-2382 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 81.75% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | IE |