CVE-2008-2255

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2254, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2254, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Internet Explorer

First reported 16 years ago

2008-08-13 12:42:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:47:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01

5.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

7

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1

6

References

HPSBST02360

31375

Patch, Vendor Advisory

1020674

TA08-225A

US Government Resource

ADV-2008-2349

MS08-045

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5602

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