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CVE-2008-2257

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-08-13 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References