Vulnerability Details CVE-2008-2258
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order" with "particular functions ... performed on" document objects, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "Table Layout Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2257.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.665
EPSS Ranking 98.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 9.3
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31375
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495431/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30610
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-051/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6025
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31375
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495431/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30610
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-051/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6025
Products affected by CVE-2008-2258
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7