CVE-2011-1845 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2011-1845?

CVE-2011-1845 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 May 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Multiple memory leaks in the DataGrid control implementation in Microsoft Silverlight 4 before 4.0.60310.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an application involving (1) subscriptions to an INotifyDataErrorInfo.ErrorsChanged event or (2) a TextBlock or TextBox element.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1845?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Silverlight.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1845?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-1845 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2011-1845 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1845 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2016-0034 Microsoft Silverlight Runtime Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-0074 Microsoft Silverlight Double Dereference Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2013-3896 Microsoft Silverlight Information Disclosure Exploited Medium 5.5
• CVE-2015-6166 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2015-1715 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 9.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-363j-27mr-4whg.