Microsoft Internet Explorer Perfect Nav plugin denial of service
| ie-perfect-nav-dos (15326) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Microsoft Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a denial of service, if the Perfect Nav plugin is installed. Perfect Nav is a search plugin and is a Browser Helper Object (BHO) that loads whenever Internet Explorer starts. The utility downloads and executes arbitrary code on a victim's system as an update feature, without the victim's knowledge. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted URL, which would cause the victim's Web browser to crash, once the link is clicked. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by hosting the malicious Web page on a Web site or by sending it to a victim as an HTML email.
Platforms Affected:
- Microsoft, Internet Explorer
Remedy:
No remedy available as of August 16, 2008.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Thu Feb 26 2004 - 00:17:06 CST, PerfectNav Crashes IE at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-02/1276.html.
- Perfect Nav Web site, PerfectNav Privacy Policy at http://search.perfectnav.com/index.cfm?action=about.
- BID-9753: PerfectNav Malformed URI Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-2382: The PerfectNav plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a malformed URL such as ?.
- SECTRACK ID: 1009218: PerfectNav Malformed URL Bug Lets Remote Users Crash the Browser
Reported:
Feb 26, 2004
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