Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2008-5232 First vendor Publication 2008-11-25
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2019-12-03

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

Buffer overflow in the CallHTMLHelp method in the Microsoft Windows Media Services ActiveX control in nskey.dll 4.1.00.3917 in Windows Media Services on Microsoft Windows NT and 2000, and Avaya Media and Message Application servers, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5232

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-04 Name : Detection of Dangerous ActiveX Control
File : nvt/secpod_dangerous_activex_ctrl.nasl
2008-11-27 Name : Microsoft Windows Media Services nskey.dll ActiveX BOF Vulnerability
File : nvt/gb_ms_win_media_services_actvx_bof_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50533 Microsoft Windows Media Services nskey.dll ActiveX CallHTMLHelp Method Overflow

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Services CallHTMLHelp ActiveX buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 27205 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Services ActiveX function call unicode access
RuleID : 14238 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Services ActiveX function call access
RuleID : 14237 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Services ActiveX clsid unicode access
RuleID : 14236 - Revision : 6 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Media Services CallHTMLHelp ActiveX buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 14235 - Revision : 12 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30814
MISC http://packetstormsecurity.org/0808-exploits/wms-overflow.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/30814.html.txt
SECTRACK http://securitytracker.com/id?1020733
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44629

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