CVE-2008-2257 Information

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 6 and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object \appended in a specific order\ aka \HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability\ or \XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability\ a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/31375 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495430/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30613 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020674 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-050/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5266