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CVE-2008-4253 Detail

Description

The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and Office Project 2003 SP3 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32592 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5994 CVE, Microsoft Corporation

Weakness Enumeration

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

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-4253
NVD Published Date:
12/10/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Microsoft Corporation