CVE-2008-4254

Summary

CVECVE-2008-4254
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-10 14:00:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-12 21:48:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple integer overflows in the Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX control (mshflxgd.ocx) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) Rows and (2) Cols properties to the (a) ExpandAll and (b) CollapseAll methods, related to access of incorrectly initialized objects and corruption of the "system state," aka "Hierarchical FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Office Frontpage 2002 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Office Frontpage 2002 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Project 2003 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Project 2007 All All All
Application Microsoft Project 2007 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Project 2003 sp3 All All
Application Microsoft Project 2007 All All All
Application Microsoft Project 2007 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 All runtime_extended_files All
Application Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 All runtime_extended_files All
Application Microsoft Visual Foxpro 8.0 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9.0 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9.0 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Foxpro 8.0 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9.0 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9.0 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2002 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2003 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2002 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2003 sp1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-070 - Critical | Microsoft Docs MS docs.microsoft.com
Microsoft Visual Basic DataGrid/FlexGrid/Heirarchival FlexGrid/Windows Common/Charts ActiveX Controls Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Vulnerabilities - Secunia Research - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com MISC secunia.com Vendor Advisory
ASA-2008-473 (ActiveX Controls) Could Allow Remote Code Execution (932349) CONFIRM support.avaya.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA08-344A -- Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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