8.5 - CVE-2008-4253

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2008-4253	First vendor Publication	2008-12-10
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2018-10-12

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score	8.5	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	10	Attack Complexity	Medium
Cvss Expoit Score	6.8	Authentication	Requires single instance
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Detail

The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and Office Project 2003 SP3 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4253

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

%	Id	Name
100 %	CWE-399	Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5994

Oval ID:	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5994
Title:	FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description:	The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and Office Project 2003 SP3 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Family:	windows	Class:	vulnerability
Reference(s):	CVE-2008-4253	Version:	5
Platform(s):	Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2008	Product(s):	Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Microsoft Project 2003
Definition Synopsis:
Vulnerable Project 2003 Microsoft Project 2003 SP3 is installed AND Mscomct2.ocx version is less than 6.1.98.11 OR Vulnerable Office XP Microsoft Office XP is installed AND Check if version of Msflxgrd.ocx is less than 6.1.98.6 OR Vulnerable Visual Basic 6.0 or VisualFoxPro Visual Basic 6.0 or VisualFoxPro Microsoft Visual FoxPro is installed AND Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 is installed AND Mscomct2.ocx version is less than 6.1.98.12

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Microsoft Office Frontpage cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_frontpage:2002:sp3::::::	1
Application	Microsoft Project cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:sp1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2003:sp3::::::	3
Application	Microsoft Visual Basic cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic:6.0::runtime_extended_files:::::	1
Application	Microsoft Visual Foxpro cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:9.0:sp2:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:9.0:sp1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:8.0:sp1::::::	3
Application	Microsoft Visual Studio .Net cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2003:sp1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2002:sp1::::::	2

ExploitDB Exploits

id	Description
2010-11-24	Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32.ocx ActiveX Buffer Overflow

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id	Description
50578	Microsoft Visual Basic FlexGrid ActiveX (msflxgrd.ocx) Unspecified Memory Cor... A memory corruption flaw exists in several Microsoft products. The FlexGrid ActiveX control fails to validate unspecified content resulting in a memory corruption. With a specially crafted web page, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date	Description
2009-02-19	IAVM : 2009-B-0009 - Microsoft Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0018406
2008-12-11	IAVM : 2008-A-0088 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0017907

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date	Description
2015-09-03	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic Charts ActiveX function call access RuleID : 35423 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32 ActiveX function call access RuleID : 27758 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32 ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 27757 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic 6.0 malformed AVI buffer overflow attempt RuleID : 23943 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-MULTIMEDIA
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Winsock ActiveX function call unicode access RuleID : 15121 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Winsock ActiveX function call access RuleID : 15120 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Winsock ActiveX clsid unicode access RuleID : 15119 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Winsock ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 15118 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic 6.0 malformed AVI buffer overflow attempt RuleID : 15104 - Revision : 18 - Type : FILE-MULTIMEDIA
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX function call unicode ac... RuleID : 15103 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX function call ac... RuleID : 15102 - Revision : 11 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX clsid unicode access RuleID : 15101 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 15100 - Revision : 14 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic FlexGrid ActiveX function call unicode access RuleID : 15099 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic FlexGrid ActiveX function call access RuleID : 15098 - Revision : 13 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic FlexGrid ActiveX clsid unicode access RuleID : 15097 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic FlexGrid ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 15096 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic DataGrid ActiveX function call unicode access RuleID : 15095 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic DataGrid ActiveX function call access RuleID : 15094 - Revision : 11 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic DataGrid ActiveX clsid unicode access RuleID : 15093 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic DataGrid ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 15092 - Revision : 11 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Charts ActiveX function call unicode access RuleID : 15091 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic Charts ActiveX function call access RuleID : 15090 - Revision : 13 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Basic Charts ActiveX clsid unicode access RuleID : 15089 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Visual Basic Charts ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 15088 - Revision : 11 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Common Controls Animation Object ActiveX function call unicode access RuleID : 15087 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Common Controls Animation Object ActiveX function call access RuleID : 15086 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Common Controls Animation Object ActiveX clsid unicode access RuleID : 15085 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Windows Common Controls Animation Object ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 15084 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32 ActiveX function call unicode access RuleID : 14024 - Revision : 9 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32 ActiveX function call access RuleID : 14023 - Revision : 16 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32 ActiveX clsid unicode access RuleID : 14022 - Revision : 9 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10	Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32 ActiveX clsid access RuleID : 14021 - Revision : 19 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date	Description
2009-02-11	Name : The remote Windows host is missing a security update containing ActiveX kill ... File : smb_kb_960715.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-10	Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the web client. File : smb_nt_ms08-070.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source	Url
BID	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32592
CERT	http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
CONFIRM	http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
MS	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08...
OVAL	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECTRACK	http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
VUPEN	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382

Alert History

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Date	Informations
2021-05-04 12:08:06	Multiple Updates
2021-04-22 01:08:27	Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 00:22:19	Multiple Updates
2018-10-13 00:22:43	Multiple Updates
2017-09-29 09:23:44	Multiple Updates
2016-04-26 17:51:31	Multiple Updates
2014-02-17 10:46:43	Multiple Updates
2014-01-19 21:25:16	Multiple Updates
2013-11-11 12:38:04	Multiple Updates
2013-05-11 00:27:03	Multiple Updates

Global Informations

Type	Count
CWE ID(s)	1
Oval ID(s)	1
CPE ID(s)	10
Sources(s)	7
osvdb(s)	1
ExploitDB Exploit(s)	1
IAVM(s)	2
Snort® Rule(s)	33
Nessus® Exploit(s)	2

	Related
10	TA08-344A
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9.3	MS08-070
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