CVE-2008-4255

Summary

CVECVE-2008-4255
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
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in mscomct2.ocx (aka Windows Common ActiveX control or Microsoft Animation ActiveX control) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, and Office Project 2003 SP3 and 2007 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AVI file with a crafted stream length, which triggers an "allocation error" and memory corruption, aka "Windows Common AVI Parsing Overflow Vulnerability."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

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
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Zero Day Initiative MISC www.zerodayinitiative.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
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
ASA-2008-473 (ActiveX Controls) Could Allow Remote Code Execution (932349) CONFIRM support.avaya.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/32613.pl MISC downloads.securityfocus.com Exploit
Microsoft Windows Common AVI ActiveX Control File Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA08-344A -- Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Zero Day Initiative MISC www.zerodayinitiative.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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