CVE-2008-4255

Published Dec 10, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 53.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in mscomct2.ocx (aka Windows Common ActiveX control or Microsoft Animation ActiveX control) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, and Office Project 2003 SP3 and 2007 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AVI file with a crafted stream length, which triggers an "allocation error" and memory corruption, aka "Windows Common AVI Parsing Overflow Vulnerability."

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
microsoft
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 10:08 AM
Reserved
Sep 25, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 10, 2008, 2:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:57 PM