CVE-2008-2257
Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description
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," aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.
INFO
Published Date :
Aug. 13, 2008, 12:42 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:46 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE-2008-2257 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31375 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495430/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30613 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674 Added Reference http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349 Added Reference http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-050/ Added Reference https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5266 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Jul. 23, 2021
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Jul. 23, 2021
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:5.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Jul. 23, 2021
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 12, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-045.mspx [Patch, Vendor Advisory] Added Reference https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 11, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495430/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495430/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5266 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5266 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Aug. 13, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-2257 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2008-2257
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
65.96 }} -16.17%
score
0.98071
percentile