CVE-2008-2255 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2255
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Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2254, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: ST 1020674 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31375 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5602 MS http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-045.mspx HP http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html

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