CVE-2008-4255

Microsoft Office Frontpage - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

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 attackers 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."

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Jerome Athias · perldoswindows

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7431

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (11)

[Patch] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32613

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083/

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369

[Vendor Advisory] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6032

[Vendor Advisory] http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm

[US Government Resource] http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499061/100/0/threaded

[Exploit] http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/32613.pl

Scores

EPSS 0.6573

EPSS Percentile 98.5%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (8)

microsoft/office_frontpage 2002 sp3

microsoft/project 2003 sp3

microsoft/project 2007 (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/visual_basic 6.0

microsoft/visual_foxpro 8.0 sp1

microsoft/visual_foxpro 9.0 sp1 (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/visual_studio_.net 2002 sp1

microsoft/visual_studio_.net 2003 sp1

Published Dec 10, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026