CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2257

Published: Aug 13, 2008 | Modified: Jul 23, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object appended in a specific order, aka HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability or XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.01 (including) 5.01 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 6 (including) 6 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 6-sp1 (including) 6-sp1 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 6-sp2 (including) 6-sp2 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 7 (including) 7 (including)

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