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 F...
HighCVSS 9.3
EPSS 53.7%
PoC
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- Proof-of-concept only
Description
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
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft office frontpage | = 2002-sp3 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft project | = 2003-sp3 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft project | = 2007 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft project | = 2007-sp1 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft visual basic | = 6.0 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft visual foxpro | = 8.0-sp1 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft visual foxpro | = 9.0-sp1 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft visual foxpro | = 9.0-sp2 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft visual studio .net | = 2002-sp1 | No fix listed |
| Microsoft visual studio .net | = 2003-sp1 | No fix listed |
References
- downloads.securityfocus.com exploit
- support.avaya.com
- 20081209 ZDI-08-083: Microsoft Animation ActiveX Control Malformed AVI Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability mailing-list
- 32613 patch vdb-entry
- 1021369 vdb-entry
- TA08-344A third-party-advisory us-government-resource
- ADV-2008-3382 vdb-entry vendor-advisory
- www.zerodayinitiative.com
- MS08-070 vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6032 signature vdb-entry