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CVE-2008-4261

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

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."

Affected Platforms

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

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References