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CVE-2010-0492

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 27.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in mstime.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the TIME2 behavior, the CTimeAction object, and destruction of markup, leading to memory corruption, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 8, 8.0.6001
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 7: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions
• Microsoft Ie: 8

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023773
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510506/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39030
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-068A.html
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-089A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0744
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-033
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-018
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7722
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023773
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510506/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39030

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