CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1456
9.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Array index vulnerability in the Event System in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted event subscription request that is used to access an array of function pointers.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows-nt 2008
• microsoft windows-nt vista
• microsoft windows-nt xp
• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows 2003 server
• microsoft windows vista
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31417 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30586 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020677 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2353 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-049 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5630 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31417 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30586 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020677 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2353 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-049 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5630 oval.cisecurity.org