CVE-2008-4256

Currently unrated

Key Information:

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

Summary

The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "Charts Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32614
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

EPSS Score

68% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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