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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 2, 2009· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2009-3672

CVE-2009-3672

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not properly handle objects in memory that (1) were not properly initialized or (2) are deleted, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a call to the getElementsByTagName method for the STYLE tag name, selection of the single element in the returned list, and a change to the outerHTML property of this element, related to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and mshtml.dll, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this issue was originally assigned CVE-2009-4054, but Microsoft assigned a duplicate identifier of CVE-2009-3672. CVE consumers should use this identifier instead of CVE-2009-4054.

Affected products

3
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

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