CVE-2008-4255

N/A Unknown
Published: December 10, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32613
Source: secure@microsoft.com
Patch
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
Source: secure@microsoft.com
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
Source: secure@microsoft.com
US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382
Source: secure@microsoft.com
Vendor Advisory
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/32613.pl
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499061/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32613
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

22 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
65.7%
99th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

microsoft