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CVE-2008-4256

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
10/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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."

Impact

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

Base Score: 8.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
8.50
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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