CVE-2008-4255
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."
- Affected products
- Visual Basic 6.0, Office Project, Visual Foxpro, Visual Studio .Net
- Microsoft Office Frontpage
- = 2002
- Microsoft Project
- = 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- = 6.0
- Microsoft Visual Foxpro
- = 8.0, 9.0
- Microsoft Visual Studio .net
- = 2002, 2003
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 2.0
- 9.3 HIGH
- EPSS
- 53.7% (99th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-10
CVE-2008-4255 at NVD
6 known exploits for CVE-2008-4255
Proof-of-concept code and exploit modules indexed by Sploitus
MS Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx Buffer Overflow PoC
MS Visual Basic ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx Buffer Overflow PoC
Microsoft Visual Basic - ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx Buffer Overflow (PoC)
Microsoft Visual Basic - ActiveX Controls mscomct2.ocx Buffer Overflow (PoC)
Microsoft Visual Basic ActiveX Buffer Overflow
Microsoft Windows Common AVI ActiveX Control File Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability(MS08-070)