Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 on Windows 2000 SP4; Windows XP SP2 and SP3; Windows Server 2003 SP2; Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2; and Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing a pointer associated with a deleted object, related to incorrectly initialized memory and improper handling of objects in memory, as exploited in the wild in December 2009 and January 2010 during Operation Aurora, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: microsoft
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-21T03:55:30.221Z
Reserved: 2010-01-07T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2010-0249
Updated: 2024-08-07T00:45:11.028Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2010-01-15T17:30:00.533
Modified: 2026-05-21T12:57:01.463
Link: CVE-2010-0249
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