Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-4260 First vendor Publication 2008-12-10
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-12-07

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

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 sometimes attempts to access a deleted object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4260

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5903
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5903
Title: Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 sometimes attempts to access a deleted object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-4260
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-15 Name : Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (963027)
File : nvt/secpod_ms09-014.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (958215)
File : nvt/secpod_ms08-073.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50612 Microsoft IE Object Handling Uninitialized Memory Corruption

A memory corruption flaw exists in Internet Explorer. IE can be directed to access an object which has been deleted resulting in memory corruption. With a specially crafted web page, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer Shell.Explorer 2 ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 15122 - Revision : 15 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows WebDAV pathname buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15115 - Revision : 12 - Type : OS-WINDOWS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer embed src buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15114 - Revision : 16 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10 Shell.Explorer 2 ActiveX function call unicode access
RuleID : 15113 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer Shell.Explorer 2 ActiveX function call access
RuleID : 15112 - Revision : 12 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Shell.Explorer 2 ActiveX clsid unicode access
RuleID : 15111 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Shell.Explorer 1 ActiveX clsid unicode access
RuleID : 15110 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer Shell.Explorer 1 ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 15109 - Revision : 12 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-12-10 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the web client.
File : smb_nt_ms08-073.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
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?1021371
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3385

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