CVE-2008-2255

Impact

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."

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31375
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5602
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31375
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5602