CVE-2008-4844
72Vexday Risk Score
Patch now. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a working public exploit.
ssvc Actepss 67%
from disclosure to weapon648 days
Published on NVDDec 11
1st PoC+648d
metasploitDec 7
VulnCheckDec 11
exploitation probability
67%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
5 public exploit(s)
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CRecordInstance::TransferToDestination function in mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, 6 SP1, and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via DSO bindings involving (1) an XML Island, (2) XML DSOs, or (3) Tabular Data Control (TDC) in a crafted HTML or XML document, as demonstrated by nested SPAN or MARQUEE elements, and exploited in the wild in December 2008.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 5✓ VexDay Proof
cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7410exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/16583cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7403cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7477unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7583unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2008/12/18/ms08-078-and-the-sdl.aspxhttp://code.google.com/p/inception-h2hc/http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5458http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123015308222620&w=2https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-078http://secunia.com/advisories/33089https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6007https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7403https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7410https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7477https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7583http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/12/09/yet-another-unpatched-drive-by-exploit-found-on-the-web/