VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-1255

critical
Published 2011-06-16 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions (aka HTML+TIME) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, aka "Time Element Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-20547 remote windows verified
Ciph3r · 2012-08-16

Microsoft Internet Explorer - Time Element Memory Corruption (MS11-050)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
windows Windows Fixed 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
r2 Not affected —
- Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8

References

CWEs

CWE-908

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.