CVE-2008-4261

no score yetEPSS 30%

microsoft internet explorer: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

EPSS: 30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-399
Published: 2008-12-10
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

microsoft:internet_explorer

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=761
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021371
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3385
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-073

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