9.3 - CVE-2008-4261

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2008-4261	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: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

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6 SP1 on Windows 2000, and 6 on Windows XP and Server 2003 does not properly handle extraneous data associated with an object embedded in a web page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML tags that trigger memory corruption, aka "HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4261

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

%	Id	Name
100 %	CWE-399	Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5829

Oval ID:	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5829
Title:	HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description:	Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6 SP1 on Windows 2000, and 6 on Windows XP and Server 2003 does not properly handle extraneous data associated with an object embedded in a web page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML tags that trigger memory corruption, aka "HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Family:	windows	Class:	vulnerability
Reference(s):	CVE-2008-4261	Version:	3
Platform(s):	Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2008	Product(s):	Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Definition Synopsis:
Check for Vulnerable Windows 2000 SP4 and Mshtml.dll version Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later is installed AND Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 is installed AND Mshtml.dll version is less than 5.0.3870.1500 OR Vulnerable IE 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is installed AND Vulnerable Versions Check for Vulnerable Windows 2000 SP4 and Mshtml.dll version Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later is installed AND Mshtml.dll version is less than 6.0.2800.1617 OR Check for Vulnerable Windows XP (x86) SP2 and Mshtml.dll version Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later is installed AND Mshtml.dll version is less than 6.0.2900.3462 OR Check for Vulnerable Windows XP (x86) SP3 and Mshtml.dll version Microsoft Windows XP (x86) SP3 is installed AND Mshtml.dll version is less than 6.0.2900.5694 OR Check for Vulnerable Server 2003 SP1/2003(ia-64) SP1/XP (x64) and Mshtml.dll version Check for Vulnerable Server 2003 SP1/2003(ia-64)/XP (x64) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (x86) is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP1 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 for Itanium is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (x64) is installed AND Mshtml.dll version is less than 6.0.3790.3229 OR Check for Vulnerable Server 2003 SP2/2003 SP2(ia-64) SP2/XP SP2(x64) and Mshtml.dll version Check for Vulnerable Server 2003 SP2/2003 SP2(ia-64) SP2/XP SP2(x64) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86) is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition SP2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (ia64) SP2 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x64) is installed AND Mshtml.dll version is less than 6.0.3790.4392

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Microsoft Internet Explorer cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:sp1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01:sp4::::::	4

SAINT Exploits

Description	Link
Internet Explorer embed tag src extension buffer overflow	More info here

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
50610	Microsoft IE EMBED Tag File Name Extension Overflow A buffer overflow exists in Internet Explorer. IE fails to validate HTML tags resulting in a stack overflow. With a specially crafted web page, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution or denial of service resulting in a loss of integrity, and/or availability.

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
IDEFENSE	http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=761
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

Alert History

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Date	Informations
2023-12-07 21:28:06	Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 00:22:19	Multiple Updates
2019-02-26 17:19:31	Multiple Updates
2018-10-13 00:22:43	Multiple Updates
2017-09-29 09:23:44	Multiple Updates
2016-09-01 01:01:18	Multiple Updates
2016-06-29 00:01:17	Multiple Updates
2016-04-26 17:51:34	Multiple Updates
2014-02-17 10:46:44	Multiple Updates
2014-01-19 21:25:16	Multiple Updates
2013-05-11 00:27:04	Multiple Updates

Global Informations

Type	Count
CWE ID(s)	1
Oval ID(s)	1
CPE ID(s)	4
Sources(s)	6
Saint Exploit(s)	1
osvdb(s)	1
Openvas Exploit(s)	2
Snort® Rule(s)	8
Nessus® Exploit(s)	1

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