National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2255
Original release date:08/13/2008
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2254, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-225A
Name: TA08-225A
External Source: MS
Name: MS08-045
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31375
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020674
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2349
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5602
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBST02360
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBST02360