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
EPSS: 0.388 (98.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6, 7
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (Technical Description, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- secure@microsoft.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_HP, vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
- secure@microsoft.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)