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CVE-2008-2258 Detail

Current Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order" with "particular functions ... performed on" document objects, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "Table Layout Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2257.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495431/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30610
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349 Vendor Advisory 
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-051/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6025

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2258
NVD Published Date:
08/13/2008
NVD Last Modified:
07/23/2021
Source:
Microsoft Corporation