CVE-2008-4261

N/A

Published: December 10, 2008 at 01:33 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC

6 products affected across 1 vendorInternet ExplorerWindows Server 2008Windows Xp

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 30%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Internet Explorer · Microsoft

95%

5.01 sp4 6 6 sp1 7

microsoft-windows-2000 (environment) · microsoft-windows-server-2003 (environment) · microsoft-windows-server-2008 (environment) · microsoft-windows-vista (environment) · microsoft-windows-xp (environment)

Windows 2000 · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Windows Server 2003 · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Windows Server 2008 · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Windows Vista · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions