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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 10, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2008-4255

CVE-2008-4255

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in mscomct2.ocx (aka Windows Common ActiveX control or Microsoft Animation ActiveX control) in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, and Office Project 2003 SP3 and 2007 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AVI file with a crafted stream length, which triggers an "allocation error" and memory corruption, aka "Windows Common AVI Parsing Overflow Vulnerability."

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Affected products

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  • Microsoft/Frontpage
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_frontpage:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Microsoft/Project3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Microsoft/Visual Basic2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic:6.0:*:runtime_extended_files:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic:6.0:*:runtime_extended_files:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
  • Microsoft/Visual Foxpro4 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:8.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:8.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:9.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:9.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2
  • Microsoft/Visual Studio .net3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2002:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2002:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2003:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1
  • Microsoft/Office Projectllm-fuzzy
    Range: 2003 SP3 and 2007 Gold and SP1

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