CVE-2008-3704
EXPLOITED IN THE WILDMicrosoft Visual Studio <6.0.84.18 - Buffer Overflow
Title source: llmDescription
Heap-based buffer overflow in the MaskedEdit ActiveX control in Msmask32.ocx 6.0.81.69, and possibly other versions before 6.0.84.18, in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long Mask parameter, related to not "validating property values with boundary checks," as exploited in the wild in August 2008, aka "Masked Edit Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Exploits (4)
exploitdb
WORKING POC
VERIFIED
by Metasploit · rubyremotewindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16507
exploitdb
WORKING POC
VERIFIED
by Koshi · htmlremotewindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6317
exploitdb
WORKING POC
VERIFIED
by Symantec · javascriptdoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6244
metasploit
WORKING POC
NORMAL
by Symantec, koshi, MC · rubypocwin
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/ms08_070_visual_studio_msmask.rb
References (12)
Scores
EPSS
0.8747
EPSS Percentile
99.5%
Details
VulnCheck KEV
2008-08-18
InTheWild.io
2018-10-12
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (6)
microsoft/visual_basic
6.0
microsoft/visual_foxpro
8.0 sp1
microsoft/visual_foxpro
9.0 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/visual_studio
6.0
microsoft/visual_studio_.net
2002 sp1
microsoft/visual_studio_.net
2003 sp1
Published
Aug 18, 2008
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026