CVE-2008-4255

Microsoft Office Frontpage - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-4255. PoCs published by Jerome Athias.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit generates a malicious .AVI file and an HTML file to trigger a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx Animation Object (CVE-2008-4255). The PoC serves the file via an UNC path to exploit the vulnerability.

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

This exploit generates a malicious .AVI file and an HTML file to trigger a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx Animation Object (CVE-2008-4255). The PoC serves the file via an UNC path to exploit the vulnerability.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Rce
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Microsoft Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Debugging Tools for Windows · UNC path to serve the malicious .AVI file
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32613
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6032
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499061/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.5370
EPSS Percentile 98.9%

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