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CVE-2008-4255 Details

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."

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/32613.pl CVEExploit
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070 CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6032 CVE
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499061/100/0/threaded CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
microsoft office frontpage
2002 sp3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_frontpage:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
microsoft project
2003 sp3
2007
2007 sp1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
microsoft visual basic
6.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic:6.0:*:runtime_extended_files:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
microsoft visual foxpro
8.0 sp1
9.0 sp1
9.0 sp2

CPE

  • 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:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
microsoft visual studio .net
2002 sp1
2003 sp1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2002:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2003:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-4255
NVD Published Date:
Dec 10, 2008
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2008-4255 Details - Not Deferred