CVE-2008-2257

Published Aug 13, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 35.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order," aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
microsoft
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 8:58 AM
Reserved
May 16, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 13, 2008, 12:42 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:53 PM