CVE-2008-2257

high · 9.3

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.

9.3

CVSS

35.2%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

98th

EPSS percentile

2008-08-13

Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
microsoft	internet_explorer	5.01
microsoft	internet_explorer	6
microsoft	internet_explorer	6
microsoft	internet_explorer	6
microsoft	internet_explorer	7

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

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

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2008-2257