Live › vulnerability › CVE-2010-0249
Go to dashboardMicrosoft Internet Explorer has a use-after-free bug where it keeps using a pointer to an object it already deleted. A remote attacker who gets a user to load a malicious page can run arbitrary code on the victim's machine.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 19:11 UTC, 5h before NVD. All times on this page are UTC.
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
| Product | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | vendor | – | – |
| microsoft internet explorer | vendor | = 5.0.1 | – |
| microsoft internet explorer | vendor | = 6 | – |
| microsoft internet explorer | vendor | = 7.0 | – |
| microsoft internet explorer | vendor | = 8 | – |
Check whether any machine still runs Internet Explorer with a version affected by CVE-2010-0249 (the sources do not list exact versions).
Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
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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