CVE-2011-0346
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ReleaseInterface function in MSHTML.DLL in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors related to the DOM implementation and the BreakAASpecial and BreakCircularMemoryReferences functions, as demonstrated by cross_fuzz, aka "MSHTML Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 8.1 (v3.1)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 31.0% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0372)
- Published
- January 7, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0372 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on October 21, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows 7
- microsoft / windows 7
- microsoft / windows server 2003
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-12/0698.html
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx
- http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-crossfuzz-potential-0-day-in.html
- http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/fuzzer_timeline.txt
- http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/known_vuln.txt
- http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/msie_crash.txt
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/427980(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515506/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45639
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024940
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0026(Vendor Advisory)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-018
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64482
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11882
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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