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    CVE-2008-2257

    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," aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.

    Published:Aug 13, 2008
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Aug 13, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.62995
    CVSS Score:9.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Internet Explorer

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High