PT-2008-5560 · Microsoft · Internet Authentication Service (Ias) Helper Com

Hamedata · Published 2008-09-29 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4299

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) Helper COM Component (affected versions not specified)

Description: A certain ActiveX control in the Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) Helper COM Component allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a browser crash. This can be achieved by passing a large integer value in the first argument to the PutProperty method.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4299

Affected Products

Internet Authentication Service (Ias) Helper Com

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4299 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45556 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/496695/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4323 · Note