Published: 13/08/2008 Updated: 23/07/2021

CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 828

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order," aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.

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CWE-399 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674 http://secunia.com/advisories/31375 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-050/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30613 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5266 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495430/100/0/threaded https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045 https://nvd.nist.gov

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