Description
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."
Published: 2010-12-22
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 85.6% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Microsoft Internet Explorer
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:26:12.333Z

Reserved: 2010-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-3971

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-12-22T21:00:17.723

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-3971

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses