Intrusion PreventionMS.IE.Nested.HTML.Element.Memory.Corruption
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a memory-corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
The memory corruption occurs when the application attempts to access uninitialized memory in certain situations. This could lead to a crash of Internet Explorer or to remote code execution.
Affected Products
Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 when installed on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7
Impact
System compromise.
Recommended Actions
Please refer to the following web page for the update and more detailed information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-045.mspx
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 15787 |
| Created | Aug 18, 2008 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2008-2257 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 90.06% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | IE |