CVE-2009-4073: Infoleak
First published: Tue Nov 24 2009(Updated: )
The printing functionality in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to discover a local pathname, and possibly a local username, by reading the dc:title element of a PDF document that was generated from a local web page.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | =8 | |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5 | |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | =7 | |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | =6 |
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Reference Links
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37362
- http://osvdb.org/60504
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12355
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100/0/threaded
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/event
- agent/description
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/microsoft
- canonical/microsoft internet explorer
- version/microsoft internet explorer/8
- version/microsoft internet explorer/5
- version/microsoft internet explorer/7
- version/microsoft internet explorer/6