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CVE-2008-4255

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
10/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_frontpage:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic:6.0:*:runtime_extended_files:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:8.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:9.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:9.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2002:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2003:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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