CVE-2008-4255
Heap-based buffer overflow in mscomct2.ocx (aka Windows Common ActiveX control or Microsoft Animation ActiveX control) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, and Office Project 2003 SP3 and 2007 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AVI file with a crafted stream length, which triggers an "allocation error" and memory corruption, aka "Windows Common AVI Parsing Overflow Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 53.7% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4238)
- Published
- December 10, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4238 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office frontpage
- microsoft / project
- microsoft / project
- microsoft / project
- microsoft / visual basic
- microsoft / visual foxpro
- microsoft / visual foxpro
- microsoft / visual foxpro
- microsoft / visual studio .net
- microsoft / visual studio .net
References
- http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/32613.pl(Exploit)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499061/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32613(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-083/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6032
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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