CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4259
9.3 HIGH
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- 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-399
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 sometimes attempts to access uninitialized memory locations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption, related to a WebDAV request for a file with a long name, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.01
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499065/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021371 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3385 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-087 www.zerodayinitiative.com
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-087/ www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-073 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5706 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499065/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021371 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3385 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-087 www.zerodayinitiative.com
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-087/ www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-073 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5706 oval.cisecurity.org