CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4255

9.3 HIGH Published 2008-12-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in mscomct2.ocx (aka Windows Common ActiveX control or Microsoft Animation ActiveX control) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, and Office Project 2003 SP3 and 2007 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AVI file with a crafted stream length, which triggers an "allocation error" and memory corruption, aka "Windows Common AVI Parsing Overflow Vulnerability."

Affected configurations

• microsoft office frontpage 2002 • microsoft project 2003 • microsoft project 2007 • microsoft visual basic 6.0 • microsoft visual foxpro 8.0 • microsoft visual foxpro 9.0 • microsoft visual studio .net 2002 • microsoft visual studio .net 2003

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References