FKIE_CVE-2010-3971
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2010-12-22 21:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:23
Severity
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."
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 7 | |
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 8 |
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