CVE-2008-1442 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer2 documents2 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
62.9%
top 1.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Timeline
PublishedJun 12
Latest updateMay 1

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the substringData method in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to an unspecified manipulation of a DOM object before a call to this method, aka the "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: secunia.com ↗Patch: securitytracker.com ↗Patch: www.zerodayinitiative.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-m7fw-rcmw-qw64: Heap-based buffer overflow in the substringData method in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, relat↗2022-05-01
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CVE-2008-1442 — Microsoft vulnerability | cvebase