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CVE-2008-4254

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the Hierarchical FlexGrid ActiveX control (mshflxgd.ocx) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) Rows and (2) Cols properties to the (a) ExpandAll and (b) CollapseAll methods, related to access of incorrectly initialized objects and corruption of the "system state," aka "Hierarchical FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office Frontpage: 2002-sp3
• Microsoft Project: 2003-sp3, 2007, 2007-sp1
• Microsoft Visual Basic: 6.0
• Microsoft Visual Foxpro: 8.0-sp1, 9.0-sp1, 9.0-sp2
• Microsoft Visual Studio .Net: 2002-sp1, 2003-sp1

References

• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-72/
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499059/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5805
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-72/
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499059/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021369

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