Buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2008-1442
Heap-based buffer overflow in the substringData method in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to an unspecified manipulation of a DOM object before a call to this method, aka the "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.388 (98.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.388 · newest: 0.388 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6, 7
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-031 (vendor-advisory)
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-039/ (Technical Description, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1778 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3934 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5720 (signature, vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/29556 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493253/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)