PT-2008-6010 · Microsoft · Debug Diagnostic Tool+1

Published 2008-10-30 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4800

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 Debug Diagnostic Tool version 1.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and crash of Internet Explorer 6.0, via a large negative integer argument to the GetEntryPointForThread method in the DebugDiag ActiveX control. This issue might only be exploitable in limited environments or non-default browser settings.

Recommendations For Microsoft Debug Diagnostic Tool version 1.0, consider disabling the GetEntryPointForThread method as a temporary workaround to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4800

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Debug Diagnostic Tool

References · 6

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/31996 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32550 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4800 · Security Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4532 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/497943/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46309 · Note