Executive Summary

Summary
Title Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (948881)
Informations
Name MS08-023 First vendor Publication 2008-04-08
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2008-04-08
Severity (Vendor) Critical Revision N/A

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

This critical security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability for a Microsoft product. This update also includes a kill bit for the Yahoo! Music Jukebox product. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5475
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5475
Title: ActiveX Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description: The HxTocCtrl ActiveX control (hxvz.dll), as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1, in Windows XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista SP1, and Server 2008, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed arguments, which triggers memory corruption.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-1086
 Version: 12
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-01-10 Name : Microsoft 'hxvz.dll' ActiveX Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability (948881)
File : nvt/gb_ms08-023.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44171 Microsoft Windows HxTocCtrl ActiveX (hxvz.dll) Memory Corruption

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Help 2.0 Contents Control 2 ActiveX function call unicode access
RuleID : 13675 - Revision : 7 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Help 2.0 Contents Control 2 ActiveX function call access
RuleID : 13674 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Help 2.0 Contents Control 2 ActiveX clsid unicode access
RuleID : 13673 - Revision : 7 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Help 2.0 Contents Control 2 ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 13672 - Revision : 13 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Help 2.0 Contents Control ActiveX function call unicode access
RuleID : 13671 - Revision : 7 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Help 2.0 Contents Control ActiveX function call access
RuleID : 13670 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Help 2.0 Contents Control ActiveX clsid unicode access
RuleID : 13669 - Revision : 7 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Help 2.0 Contents Control ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 13668 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-04-08 Name : The remote Windows host has an ActiveX control that is affected by multiple b...
File : smb_nt_ms08-023.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-04-26 18:00:30
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2014-02-17 11:45:56
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-19 21:30:11
  • Multiple Updates
2013-05-11 00:49:19
  • Multiple Updates