National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4254
Original release date:12/10/2008
Last revised:08/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple integer overflows in the Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX control (mshflxgd.ocx) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) Rows and (2) Cols properties to the (a) ExpandAll and (b) CollapseAll methods, related to access of incorrectly initialized objects and corruption of the "system state," aka "Hierarchical 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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-344A
Name: TA08-344A
External Source: MS
Name: MS08-070
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3382
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021369
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081209 Secunia Research: Microsoft Hierarchical FlexGrid Control Integer Overflows
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-72/
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5805