National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4253
Original release date:12/10/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and Office Project 2003 SP3 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 "FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
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: TA08-344A
Name: TA08-344A
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021369
External Source: BID
Name: 32592
External Source: MS
Name: MS08-070
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3382
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5994