CVE-2008-2255

8Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 29%

exploitation probability

29%top 2% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2254, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045 http://secunia.com/advisories/31375 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5602 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349