CVE-2008-4252

High

Description

The DataGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "DataGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.5
Exploit probability—
ProductMicrosoft Visual Basic
PublishedDec 10, 2008
First seenDec 10, 2008

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
microsoft visual_basic6.0—
microsoft office_frontpage2002—
microsoft project2003, 2007—
microsoft visual_foxpro8.0, 9.0—
microsoft visual_studio_.net2002, 2003—

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