CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4256
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "Charts Control Memory Corruption 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 · not in database (1)
References
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32614 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5651 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32614 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5651 oval.cisecurity.org