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CVE-2008-1442

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 38.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-06-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the substringData method in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to an unspecified manipulation of a DOM object before a call to this method, aka the "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121380194923597&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30575
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3934
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020225
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493253/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29556
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1778
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-039/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-031
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5720
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121380194923597&w=2

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