CVE-2008-1442

Heap-based buffer overflow in the substringData method in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to an unspecified manipulation of a DOM object before a call to this method, aka the "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

• CWE-119

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121380194923597&w=2Mailing List
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30575Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3934Third Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020225Patch
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493253/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1778Broken Link
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-039/Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-031
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5720
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121380194923597&w=2Mailing List
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30575Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3934Third Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020225Patch
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493253/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1778Broken Link
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-039/Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-031
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5720

Published

Jun 12, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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