CVE-2008-2257
15Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 35%
exploitation probability
35%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order," aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045http://secunia.com/advisories/31375https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5266http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495430/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30613http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-050/