CVE-2008-4800

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
22.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: October 31, 2008 (6404 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The DebugDiag ActiveX control in CrashHangExt.dll, possibly 1.0, in Microsoft Debug Diagnostic Tool allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and Internet Explorer 6.0 crash) via a large negative integer argument to the GetEntryPointForThread method. NOTE: this issue might only be exploitable in limited environments or non-default browser settings.

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

microsoft debug diagnostic tool

References

🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 securityreason.com