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CVE-2008-4255

high · 9.3

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."

9.3
CVSS
53.7%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2008-12-10
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftoffice_frontpage2002
microsoftproject2003
microsoftproject2007
microsoftproject2007
microsoftvisual_basic6.0
microsoftvisual_foxpro8.0
microsoftvisual_foxpro9.0
microsoftvisual_foxpro9.0
microsoftvisual_studio_.net2002
microsoftvisual_studio_.net2003

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References

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