National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1456
Original release date:08/13/2008
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Array index vulnerability in the Event System in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted event subscription request that is used to access an array of function pointers.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-225A
Name: TA08-225A
External Source: MS
Name: MS08-049
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31417
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020677
External Source: BID
Name: 30586
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2353
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5630
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT080117
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT080117