Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2008-4261
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6 SP1 on Windows 2000, and 6 on Windows XP and Server 2003 does not properly handle extraneous data associated with an object embedded in a web page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML tags that trigger memory corruption, aka "HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
EPSS: 0.297 (98.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.01, 6, 7
- Microsoft Windows_2000
- Microsoft Windows_server_2003
- Microsoft Windows_server_2008
- Microsoft Windows_vista
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_IDEFENSE, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)