CVE-2008-4300 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash browsers via a long string in an IIS ActiveX control, requiring user interaction to visit a malicious page.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-4300?
CVE-2008-4300 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services, published on 29 Sep 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A certain ActiveX control in adsiis.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a long string in the second argument to the GetObject method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4300?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Services.
How do I fix CVE-2008-4300?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4300 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-4300 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4300 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2008-4301 Other in n/a
- CVE-2007-2815 The "hit-highlighting" functionality in webhits.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server 5.0 only uses Windows NT ACL
- CVE-2003-0224 Buffer overflow in ssinc.dll for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a web pa
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h59h-44cg-5vq7.