Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Frontpage
CVE-2008-4255
Heap-based buffer overflow in mscomct2.ocx (aka Windows Common ActiveX control or Microsoft Animation ActiveX control) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, and Office Project 2003 SP3 and 2007 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AVI file with a crafted stream length, which triggers an "allocation error" and memory corruption, aka "Windows Common AVI Parsing Overflow Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.537 (98.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secure@microsoft.com (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2008-4255?
- CVE-2008-4255 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Frontpage, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2008-12-10.
- Is CVE-2008-4255 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.