CVE-2008-0015highunder attackCWE-121

CVE-2008-0015

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ssvc Actcvss 8.8epss 77%
from disclosure to weapon3 days
Published on NVDJul 7
1st PoC+3d
metasploitJul 5
CISA KEV+6069d
Official alert in Brazil

Brazil's federal government published an alert, recommendation or bulletin that cites this vulnerability.

Source: CTIR Gov (GSI) and CISC Gov.br, under the CC BY-ND 3.0 license.
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2026-03-10

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

In short

A bug in Microsoft's video player component allows attackers to run malicious code on your computer when you visit a specially crafted webpage. The flaw lets attackers overflow a memory buffer to inject and execute harmful instructions.

Technical detail

Stack-based buffer overflow in CComVariant::ReadFromStream within ATL's MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX control (msvidctl.dll). Remote attackers can exploit this via crafted web content to achieve arbitrary code execution; exploitation requires user interaction (visiting a malicious page) and affects Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista SP2 and Server 2008.

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Stack-based buffer overflow in the CComVariant::ReadFromStream function in the Active Template Library (ATL), as used in the MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX control in msvidctl.dll in DirectShow, in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page, as exploited in the wild in July 2009, aka "Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability."
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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