PT-2008-3014 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Peter Vreugdenhil + 1 · Published 2008-06-11 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2008-1442

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Internet Explorer versions 6 through 7

Description A heap-based buffer overflow issue exists, related to the manipulation of a DOM object before a call to the substringData method, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is related to the way Internet Explorer displays a Web page that contains certain unexpected method calls to HTML objects. An attacker could exploit this by constructing a specially crafted Web page, potentially allowing remote code execution and gaining the same user rights as the logged-on user.

Recommendations For Internet Explorer version 6, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For Internet Explorer version 7, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to Web pages that contain unexpected method calls to HTML objects until a patch is available.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1442

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 14

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020225 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30575 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1442 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1442 · Security Note
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-039 · Patch
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121380194923597&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-031 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/493253/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/29556 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3934 · Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/MS08-031 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5720 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1778 · Note