Detections
Analytics
CVE-2008-4253
high
Description
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."
References
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5994
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32592
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm