FKIE_CVE-2008-4261
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-12-10 14:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:57
Severity
Summary
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."
References
Impacted products
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