Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-4255 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:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Heap-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."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4255

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6032
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6032
Title: Windows Common AVI Parsing Overflow Vulnerability
Description: Heap-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."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-4255
 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 Visual Studio .NET 2002
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
Microsoft Project 2003
Microsoft Project 2007
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 3
Application 1
Application 3
Application 2

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2010-11-24 Microsoft Visual Studio Msmask32.ocx ActiveX Buffer Overflow
2008-12-12 Microsoft Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx Buffer Overflow PoC

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50580 Microsoft Visual Basic Animation ActiveX (mscomct2.ocx) AVI Parsing Memory Co...

A buffer overflow exists in Visual Basic Animation ActiveX control. mscomct2.ocx fails to validate AVI files resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted file, 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 Common Controls Animation Object ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 18601 - Revision : 9 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
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/32613
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499061/100/0/threaded
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
MISC http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/32613.pl
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083/
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

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