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" with "particular functions ... performed on" document objects, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "Table Layout Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2257.
Published: 2008-08-13
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 61.4% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:58:00.646Z

Reserved: 2008-05-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-2258

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-08-13T12:42:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-2258

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