CVE-2008-4256

Severity

85%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

165%

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."

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."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 8.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-10 14:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:48:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office Project 2003 Service Pack 3

2003

Microsoft Office Project 2007

2007

Microsoft Office Project 2007 Service Pack 1

2007

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime

6.0

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8.0 Service Pack 1

8.0

Microsoft visual_fox_pro 9.0 SP1

9.0

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2

9.0

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1

2002

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1

2003

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