9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-4255

Published: 10/12/2008 Updated: 12/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 935
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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 malicious users 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."

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microsoft visual studio .net 2002

microsoft visual studio .net 2003

microsoft visual basic 6.0

microsoft project 2007

microsoft office frontpage 2002

microsoft project 2003

microsoft visual foxpro 8.0

microsoft visual foxpro 9.0

Exploits

#!/usr/bin/perl # Microsoft Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2ocx Animation Object Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-4255) PoC # You'll need Debugging Tools for Windows wwwmicrosoftcom/whdc/devtools/debugging/defaultmspx # /JA # Come to FRHACK! # wwwfrhackorg print "\nMicrosoft Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2ocx Animation Object ...
Microsoft Visual Basic Active-X Controls buffer overflow proof of concept exploit that leverages mscomct2ocx ...