CVE-2008-4299 (GCVE-0-2008-4299)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-29 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:08
VLAI
Summary
A certain ActiveX control in the Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) Helper COM Component in iashlpr.dll allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a large integer value in the first argument to the PutProperty method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496695/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4323 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2008-09-24 00:00
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