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CVE-2008-4259

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-12-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 sometimes attempts to access uninitialized memory locations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption, related to a WebDAV request for a file with a long name, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows XpMicrosoft Windows Server 2003Microsoft Windows Server 2008Microsoft Windows 2000Microsoft Windows VistaMicrosoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References