Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4261

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-10 13:33:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:08:35
Assigner microsoft
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6 SP1 on Windows 2000, and 6 on Windows XP and Server 2003 does not properly handle extraneous data associated with an object embedded in a web page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML tags that trigger memory corruption, aka "HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability."