CVE-2008-4261

8Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackepss 30%

exploitation probability

30%top 2% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6 SP1 on Windows 2000, and 6 on Windows XP and Server 2003 does not properly handle extraneous data associated with an object embedded in a web page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML tags that trigger memory corruption, aka "HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=761 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-073 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5829 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021371 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3385