Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro DataGrid Control
CVE-2008-4252

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Microsoft
Status
Visual Foxpro
Visual Studio .net
Visual Basic
Project
Vendor
CVE Published:
10 December 2008

What is CVE-2008-4252?

The DataGrid ActiveX control present in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro versions 8.0 and 9.0 is susceptible to a memory corruption issue that arises from improper error handling when accessing incorrectly initialized objects. This flaw can be exploited by remote attackers through specially crafted HTML documents that manipulate the system state, potentially enabling the execution of arbitrary code on the affected systems.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securit...
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EPSS Score

61% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2008-4252 : Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro DataGrid Control