Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Frontpage
CVE-2008-4254
Multiple integer overflows in the Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX control (mshflxgd.ocx) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) Rows and (2) Cols properties to the (a) ExpandAll and (b) CollapseAll methods, related to access of incorrectly initialized objects and corruption of the "system state," aka "Hierarchical FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 8.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.221 (97.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.221 · newest: 0.221 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office Frontpage — versions 2002
- Microsoft Project — versions 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Visual Basic — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Visual Foxpro — versions 8.0, 9.0
- Microsoft Visual Studio .Net — versions 2002, 2003
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5805 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-72/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499059/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)